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LONDON: 
Printed  by  Wm.  Hunter,  for  John  Senex,  at  the  Globe,  and  John  Hookb 

at  the  FUrwer-de-Luce,  over-against  a^^  Dunstan's  Church,  in  Fleet  st. 

In  the  Tear  of  Masoniy,  5723 — Anno  Domini,  1723. 

NEW    YORK: 
ROBT.    MAGGY,    29    BEEKMAN    STREET. 

CLARK,  AUSTIN  &  SMITH,  3  PARK  ROW. 

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AMERICAN  PUBLISHER'S  PREFACE. 


The  year  lt23  forms  an  important  epoch  in  the 
history  of  the  Order,  and  among  the  Masonic  writers 
of  that  period  there  are  few  more  deserving  of  notice 
than  the  author  of  the  "  Constitutions  of  Freemasonry." 
The  Masonic  world  have  already  dignified  him  with  the 
reputation  of  a  classic,  and  enrolled  his  name  among 
that  select  number  whose  works  belong  alike  to  every 
nation,  and  are  destined  to  float  down  the  stream  of 
time,  untouched  by  the  flood  of  oblivion,  which  soon 
overtakes  the  mass  of  authors,  as  it  does  the  mass  of 
other  men. 

^^  Iihcredihili  indiistrice  —  diligentia  singulari,"  said 
the  ancients  in  their  descriptions  of  individuals  emi- 
nent for  merit;  and,  indeed,  it  must  be  owned  that,  in 
his  laborious  compilations,  "  extracted  from  the  ancient 
records  of  lodges  beyond  sea" — a  work  characterized 
by  industry  and  the  love  of  truth — no  writer  is  more 
eminently  entitled  to  the  encomium  than  James  Ander- 
son. His  varied  acquirements,  deep  research,  wonderful 
industry,  great  experience  and  boundless  resources  of 
knowledge,  both  practical  and  theoretical,  have  done 
much  to  advance  the  cause  of  Masonry. 


IVI5IO949 


Vlll  AMERICAN  PUBLISHER'S  PREFACE. 

Dr.  Anderson's  work  made  its  appearance  at  a  most 
seasonable  time ;  for  he  himself  says,  "  It  is  highly- 
probable  that  many  valuable  documents  relative  to  the 
Society  were  destroyed,  at  the  revival  of  the  Order 
in  It  It."  No  pains  were  spared — no  labor  lost — in 
examining  the  old  records  for  Masonic  information- 
Six  years  afterwards  the  work  which  has  done  so  much 
honor  to  its  author,  appeared  as  a  vehicle  of  valuable 
intelligence  to  the  craft,  and  without  which  no  Masonic 
library  is  now  complete- 
In  presenting  an  American  edition  of  "  Anderson's 
Constitutions  "  to  the  Masonic  Fraternity,  the  Publisher 
feels  confident  that  there  are  but  few  readers  in  the 
Order  who  have  not  dwelt  with  interest  and  delight  on 
the  pages  of  this  most  popular  work — popular  at  least 
with  Masons,  and  esteemed  by  them  as  the  written 
Landmarks  of  Masonry. 

"The  orthography  of  the  original  London  edition  of 
lt23,  of  which  this  work  is  a  reprint,  is  scrupulously 
followed  and  retained.  The  typographical  execution 
of  the  present  edition  will  render  it,  no  doubt,  an  orna- 
ment to  the  library,  so  that  by  this  means  the  Publisher 
is  able  to  include  in  a  neat,  economical  and  substantial 
form,  a  large  amount  of  instruction  on  the  most  import- 
ant principles  of  the  Order, 


DEDICATION 


TO 


HIS  GRACE  THE  DUKE  OF  MONTAGU. 


MY  LORD, 

Y  Order  of  his   Grace   the  Duke  of 
Wharton,    the   present   Right  Wor- 
shipful  Grand   Master  of  the  Free- 
Masons  ;  and,  as  his  Deputy,  I  humbly 
dedicate  this   Book  of  the  Constitutions  of 
our   ancient   Fraternity   to   your   Grace,    in 
testimony  of  your  honourable,  prudent,  and 
vigilant  discharge  of  the  office  of  our  Grand- 
Ma -ter  last  year. 

I  need  not  tell  your  Grace  what  pains  our  learned 
Author  has  taken  in  compiling  and  digesting  this  book 
from  the  Old  Records,  and  how  accurately  he  has  com- 
pared and  made  every  thing  agreeable  to  History  and 
Chronology,  so  as  to  render  these  New  Constitutions  a 
just  and  exact  account  of  Masonry  from  the  beginning 
of  the  World  to  your  Grace's  Mastership,  still  preserv- 
1* 


X  DEDICATION. 

ing  all  that  was  truly  ancient  and  authentick  in  the 
old  ones  :  For  every  Brother  will  be  pleased  with  the 
performance,  that  knows  it  had  your  Grace's  perusal 
and  approbation,  and  that  it  is  now  printed  for  the  use 
of  the  Lodges,  after  it  was  approved  by  the  Grand- 
Lodge,  when  your  Grace  was  Grand  Master.  All  the 
Brotherhood  will  ever  remember  the  honour  your  Grace 
has  done  them,  and  your  care  for  their  Peace,  Harmony, 
and  lasting  Friendship :  Which  none  is  more  duly 
sensible  of  than, 

My  LORD, 
Your  Grace's 
Most  oblig'd,  and 
Most  obedient  Servant, 

And  Faithful  Brother, 

J.  T.  Desaguliers, 
Deputy  Grand-Ma.ster. 


THE 

CONSTITUTION, 

HISTOKY,  LAWS,  CHAKGES,  ORDERS,  REGULATIONS, 
AND  USAGES, 

OF  THE  RIGHT   WORSHIPFUL   FRATERNITY  OF 

ACCEPTED  FREE  MASONS; 

COLLECTED 

iFrom  tiieCr  General  aaecorlrs,  anlr  tje  faitj^tul 
STratiittons  of  mans  ^ges. 

TO   BE    READ 

At  the  Admission  of  a  New  Brother,  when  the  Master 
or  Warden  shall  begin,  or  order  some  other  Brother 
to  read  as  follows  : 

DAM,  our  first  parent,  created  after 
the  image  of  God,  the  great  Archi- 
tect of  the  Universe,  must  have  had 
the  Liberal  Sciences,  particularly 
Geometry,  written  on  his  heart ;  for,  even 
since  the  fall  we  find  the  principles  of  it  in 
the  hearts  of  his  offspring,  and  which,  hi 
process  of  time,  have  been  drawn  forth  into 
a  convenient  method  of  propositions,  by  observing 
the  Laws  of  Proportion,  taken  from  Mechanism  ; 
so  that,  as  the  Mechanical  Arts  gave  occasion  to  the 
learned  to  reduce  the  elements  of  Geometry  into 
method,  this  noble  science,  thus  reduced,  is  the 
foundation  of  all  those  arts,  (particularly  of  Ma- 


12  HISTORY   OF 

SONRY  and  Architecture)  and  the  rule  by  which 
they  are  conducted  and  performed. 

No  doubt  Adam  taught  his  sons  Geometry,  and 
the  use  of  it,  in  the  several  arts  and  crafts  conveni- 
ent, at  least,  for  those  early  times  ;  for  Cain,  we 
find,  built  a  city,  which  he  called  Consecrated,  or 
Dedicated,  after  the  name  of  his  eldest  son  Enoch  ; 
and  becoming  the  Prince  of  the  one  half  of  man- 
kind, his  posterity  would  imitate  his  royal  example 
in  improving  both  the  noble  science  and  the  useful 
art.* 

Nor  can  we  suppose  that  Seth  was  less  instructed, 
who,  being  the  Prince  of  the  other  half  of  mankind, 
and  also  the  prime  cultivator  of  Astronomy,  would 
take  equal  care  to  teach  Geometry  and  Masonry  to 
his  offspring,  who  had  also  the  mighty  advantage 
of  Adam's  living  among  them.t 

But  without  regarding  uncertain  accounts,  we 
may  safely  conclude  the  Old  World,  that   lasted 

*  As  other  Arts  were  also  improved  by  them,  viz :  working  in 
metal  by  Tubal  Cain,  music  by  Jubal,  pasturage  and  tent- 
making  by  Jabal,  which  last  is  good  architecture. 

f  For  by  some  vestiges  of  antiquity  we  find  one  of  'em,  godly 
Enoch,  (who  dy'd  not,  but  was  translated  alive  to  Heaven)  proph- 
ecying  of  the  final  conflagration  at  the  Day  of  Judgment  (as  St. 
JuDE  tells  us)  and  likewise  of  the  general  Deluge  for  the  punish- 
ment of  the  world  :  Upon  which  he  erected  his  two  large  pillars, 
(tho'  some  ascribe  them  to  Seth)  the  one  of  stone,  and  the  other 
of  brick,  whereon  were  engraven  the  Liberal  Sciences,  &c.  And 
that  the  stone  pillar  remain' d  in  Syria  until  the  days  of  Vespa 
sian  the  Emperor. 


FREEMASONRY.  IB 

1,656  years,  could  not  be  ignorant  of  Masonry; 
and  that  both  the  families  of  Seth  and  Cain  erected 
many  curious  works,  until  at  length  Noah,  the  ninth 
from  Seth,  was  commanded  and  directed  of  God  to 
build  the  great  Ark,  which,  though  of  wood,  was 
certainly  fabricated  by  Geometry,  and  according  to 
the  rules  of  Masonry. 

Noah,  and  his  three  sons,  Japhet,  Shem,  and 
Ham,  all  Masons  true,  brought  with  them  over  the 
flood  the  traditions  and  arts  of  the  antedeluvians, 
and  amply  communicated  them  to  their  growing  off- 
spring ;  for  about  101  years  after  the  flood,  we  find 
a  vast  number  of  them,  if  not  the  whole  race  of 
Noah,  in  the  vale  of  Shinar,  employed  in  building  a 
city  and  large  tower,  in  order  to  make  to  themselves 
a  name,  and  to  prevent  their  dispersion.  And 
though  they  carried  on  the  work  to  a  monstrous 
height,  and  by  their  vanity  provoked  God  to  con- 
found their  devices,  by  confounding  their  speech, 
which  occasioned  their  dispersion,  yet  their  skill  in 
Masonry  is  not  the  less  to  be  celebrated,  having 
spent  above  53  years  in  that  prodigious  work,  and 
upon  their  dispersion  carried  the  mighty  knowledge 
with  them  into  distant  parts,  where  they  found  the 
good  use  of  it  in  the  settlement  of  their  kingdoms, 
commonwealths,  and  dynasties.  And  though  after- 
wards it  was  lost  in  most  parts  of  the  earth,  it  was 
especially  preserved  in  Shinar  and  Assyria,  where 


14  HISTORY   OP 

NiMROD  *  the  founder  of  that  monarchy,  after  the 
dispersion,  built  many  splendid  cities,  as  Ereck, 
Accad,  and  Calneh,  in  Shinar ;  from  whence  after- 
wards he  went  forth  into  Assyria,  and  built  Nini- 
veh,  Rehoboth,  Caleh,  and  Rhesin. 

In  these  parts,  upon  the  Tygris  and  Euphrates, 
afterwards  flourished  many  learned  priests  and  ma- 
thematicians, known  by  the  names  of  Chaldees  and 
Magi,  who  preserved  the  good  science  Geometry,  as 
the  kings  and  great  men  encouraged  the  Royal  Art. 
But  it  is  not  expedient  to  speak  more  plain  of  the 
premises,  except  in  a  formed  Lodge. 

From  hence,  therefore,  the  Science  and  Art  were 
both  transmitted  to  latter  ages  and  distant  climes, 
notwithstanding  the  confusion  of  languages  or  dia- 
lects, which,  though  it  might  help  to  give  rise  to  the 
Masons'  faculty  and  ancient  universal  practice  of 
conversing  without  speaking,  and  of  knowing  each 
other  at  a  distance,  yet  hindered  not  the  improve- 
ment of  Masonry  in  each  colony,  and  their  communi- 
cation in  their  distinct  national  dialect. 

And  no  doubt  the  Royal  Art  was  brought  down 
to  Egypt  by  Mitzraim,  the  second  son  of  Ham, 
about  six  years  after  the  confusion  at  Babel,  and 

o  NiMROD,  which  signifies  a  Kebel,  was  the  name  given  him  by 
the  holy  Family,  and  by  Moses  ;  but  among  his  friends  in  Chal- 
DEA,  his  proper  name  was  Belus,  which  signifies  Lord  ;  and 
afterwards  was  worshipped  as  a  God  by  many  nations,  under  the 
name  of  Bel,  or  Baal,  and  became  the  Bacghus  of  the  Ancients, 
or  Bar  Ciius,  the  son  of  Chus. 


FREEMASONRY.  15 

after  the  flood  160  years,  when  he  led  thither  his 
colony ;  (for  Egypt  is  Mitzraim  in  Hebrew)  because 
we  find  the  river  Nile's  overflowing  its  banks  soon 
caused  an  improvement  in  Geometry,  which  conse- 
quently brought  Masonry  much  in  request ;  for  the 
ancient  noble  cities,  with  the  other  magnificent  edi- 
fices of  that  country,  and  particularly  the  famous 
Pyramids,  demonstrate  the  early  taste  and  genius 
of  that  ancient  kingdom.  Nay,  one  of  those  Egyp- 
tian Pyramids*  is  reckoned  the  first  of  the  seven 
wonders  of  the  world,  the  account  of  which,  by  his- 
torians and  travellers,  is  almost  incredible. 

The  Sacred  Records  inform  us  well  that  the 
eleven  great  sons  of  Canaan  (the  youngest  son  of 
Ham)  soon  fortified  themselves  in  strongholds  and 
stately  walled  cities,  and  erected  most  beautiful 
temples  and  mansions  ;  for,  when  the  Israelites, 
under  the  great  Joshua,  invaded  their  country,  they 
found  it  so  regularly  fenced,  that  without  the  imme- 
diate intervention  of  God  in  behalf  of  his  peculiar 
people,  the  Canaanites  were  impregnable  and  in- 
vincible. Nor  can  we  suppose  less  of  the  other  sons 
of  Ham,  viz :  Chush,  his  eldest,  in  South  Arabia, 

**  The  marble  stones,  brought  a  vast  way  from  the  quarries  of 
Arabia,  were  most  of  'em  30  foot  long  ;  and  its  foundation  cov- 
er'd  the  ground  of  700  foot  on  each  side,  or  2800  foot  in  compass, 
and  481  in  perpendicular  height.  And  in  perfecting  it  were 
employ'd  every  day,  for  20  whole  years,  360,000  men,  by  some 
ancient  Egyptian  King,  long  before  the  Israelites  were  a  people, 
for  the  honor  of  his  Empire,  and  at  last  to  become  his  Tomb. 


16  HISTORY   OP 

and  Phut,  or  Phuts,  (now  called  Fez)  in  West 
Africa. 

And  surely  the  fair  and  gallant  posterity  of 
Japhet,  (the  eldest  son  of  Noah)  even  such  as 
travelled  into  the  isles  of  the  Gentiles,  must  have 
been  equally  skilled  in  Geometry  and  Masonry ; 
though  we  know  little  of  their  transactions  and 
mighty  works  until  their  original  knowledge  was 
almost  lost  by  the  havock  of  war,  and  by  not  main- 
taining a  due  correspondence  with  the  polite  and 
learned  nations  ;  for,  when  that  correspondence  was 
opened  in  after  ages,  we  find  they  began  to  be  most 
curious  architects. 

The  posterity  of  Shem  had  also  equal  opportuni- 
ties of  cultivating  the  useful  art,  even  those  of  them 
that  planted  their  colonies  in  the  south  and  east  of 
Asia,  much  more  those  of  them  that  in  the  great 
Assyrian  empire  lived  in  a  separate  state,  or  were 
blended  with  other  families  :  nay,  that  holy  branch 
of  Shem  (of  whom,  as  concerning  the  flesh,  Christ 
came)  could  not  be  unskilful  in  the  learned  arts  of 
Assyria ;  for  Abeam,  after  the  confusion  at  Babel 
about  268  years,  was  called  out  of  Ur  of  the  Chal- 
dees,  where  he  learned  Geometry,  and  the  arts  that 
are  performed  by  it,  which  he  would  carefully  trans- 
mit to  IsHMAEL,  to  Isaac,  and  to  his  sons,  by  Ketu- 
RAH ;  and  by  Isaac,  to  Esau  and  Jacob,  and  the 
twelve  Patriarchs  ;    nay,  the  Jews   believe    that 


FREEMASONRY.  17 

Abram  also  instructed  the  Eg3^ptians  in  the  Assyrian 
learning. 

Indeed,  the  select  family  long  used  military 
architecture  only,  as  they  were  sojourners  among 
strangers  ;  but  before  the  430  years  of  their  pere- 
grination were  expired,  even  about  86  years  before 
their  exodus,  the  Kings  of  Egypt  forced  most  of 
them  to  lay  down  their  shepherd's  instruments  and 
warlike  accoutrements,  and  trained  them  to  another 
sort  of  architecture  in  stone  and  brick,  as  Holy 
Writ  and  other  histories  acquaint  us,  whicli  God 
did  wisely  over-rule,  in  order  to  make  them  good 
Masons  before  they  possessed  the  promised  land, 
then  famous  for  most  curious  Masonry. 

And  while  marching  to  Canaan,  through  Arabia, 
under  Moses,  God  was  pleased  to  inspire  Bezaleel, 
of  the  tribe  of  Judah,  and  Aholiab,  of  the  tribe  of 
Dan,  with  wisdom  of  heart  for  erecting  that  most 
glorious  tent  or  tabernacle,  wherein  the  Shechinah 
resided,  which,  though  not  of  stone  or  brick,  Avas 
framed  by  Geometry,  a  most  beautiful  piece  of 
architecture,  (and  proved  afterwards  the  model  of 
Solomon's  Temple)  according  to  the  pattern  that 
God  had  shown  to  Moses  in  the  Mount ;  who  there- 
fore became  the  General  Master  Mason,  as  well  as 
King  of  Jessurun,  being  well  skilled  in  all  the 
Egyptian  learning,  and  divinely  inspired  with  more 
sublime  knowledge  in  Masonry. 

So  that  the  Israelites,  at  tlieir  leaving  Egypt,  were 


18  HISTORY  OF 

a  whole  kingdom  of  Masons,  well  instructed,  under 
the  conduct  of  their  Grand  Master  Moses,  who 
often  marshalled  them  into  a  regular  and  general 
Lodge,  while  in  the  wilderness,  and  gave  them  wise 
charges,  orders,  &c.,  had  they  been  well  observed ! 
But  no  more  of  the  premises  must  be  mentioned. 

And  after  they  were  possessed  of  Canaan,  the 
Israelites  came  not  short  of  the  old  inhabitants  in 
Masonry,  but  rather  vastly  improved  it,  by  the 
special  direction  of  Heaven  ;  they  fortified  better, 
and  improved  their  city  houses  and  the  palaces  of 
their  chiefs,  and  only  fell  short  in  sacred  architec- 
ture while  the  Tabernacle  stood,  but  no  longer  ;  for 
the  finest  sacred  building  of  the  Canaanites  was  the 
Temple  of  Dagon  in  Gaza  of  the  Philistines,  very 
magnificent,  and  capacious  enough  to  receive  5000 
people  under  its  roof,  that  was  artfully  supported 
by  two  main  columns,*  and  was  a  wonderful  dis- 
covery of  their  mighty  skill  in  true  Masonry,  as 
must  be  owned. 

But  Dagon's  Temple,  and  the  finest  structures  of 
Tyre  and  Sidon,  could  not  be  compared  with  the 
Eternal    God's  Temple  at  Jerusalem,  begun  and 

«  By  which  the  glorious  Sampson  puU'd  it  down  upon  the 
Lords  of  the  Philistines,  and  was  also  entangled  in  the  same 
death  which  he  drew  upon  his  enemies  for  putting  out  his  eyes, 
after  he  had  reveal' d  his  secrets  to  his  wife,  that  betray' d  him 
into  their  hands  ;  for  which  weakness  he  never  had  the  honor  to 
be  numbered  among  Masons  :  But  it  is  not  convenient  to  write 
more  of  this. 


FREEMASONRY.  19 

finished,  to  the  amazement  of  all  the  world,  in  the 
short  space  of  seven  years  and  six  months,  by  that 
wisest  man  and  most  glorious  King  of  Israel,  the 
Prince  of  Peace  and  Architecture,  Solomon,  (the 
son  of  David,  who  was  refused  that  honour  for 
being  a  man  of  blood)  by  divine  direction,  without 
the  noise  of  workmen's  tools,  though  there  were  em- 
ployed about  it  no  less  than  3,600  Princes,*  or 
Master  Masons,  to  conduct  the  work  according  to 
Solomon's  directions,  with  80,000  hewers  of  stone 
in  the  mountain,  or  Fellow  Craftsmen,  and  70,000 

labourers,  in  all 153,600 

Besides  the  levy  under  Adoniram  to 
work  in  the  mountains  of  Lebanon  by 
turns  with  the  Sidonians,  viz  :    .         .  30,000 


being  in  all 183,600 

«  In  I  Kings,  v.  16,  they  are  call'd  fi'^Tin  Hakodim,  Rulers  or 
Provosts  assisting  King  Solomon,  who  were  set  over  the  work, 
and  their  number  there  is  only  3,300  :  But  2  Chron.  ii.  18,  they 
are  called  Q'^illZD^  Menatzchim,  Overseers  and  Comforters  of  the 
people  in  working,  and  in  number,  3,600 ;  because  either  300 
might  be  more  curious  artists,  and  the  Overseers  of  the  said 
3,300,  or  rather,  not  so  excellent,  and  only  Deputy-Masters,  to 
supply  their  places  in  case  of  death  or  absence,  that  so  there 
might  be  always  3,300  acting  Masters  compleat ;  or  else  they 
might  be  the  Overseers  of  the  70,000  ^no  ^T'^S^  Isii  Sabbal,  men 
of  burden,  or  labourers,  who  were  not  Masons,  but  served  the 
80,000  nsn  U3^5<  Ish  Chotzeb,  men  of  Hewing,  called  also  D'^bna 
GriiBLiM,  stone-cutters  and  sculpturers ;  and  also,  Bonai,  '^2:1 
Builders  in  stone,  part  of  which  belonged  to  Solomon,  and  part 
to  Hiram,  King  of  Tyre,  i  Kings,  v.  18. 


20  HISTORY  OF 

for  which  great  number  of  ingenious  Masons,  Solo- 
mon was  much  obliged  to  Hiram,  or  Huram,  King 
of  Tyre,  who  sent  his  masons  and  carpenters  to 
Jerusalem,  and  the  firs  and  cedars  of  Lebanon  to 
Joppa,  the  next  sea-port. 

But  above  all,  he  sent  his  namesake  Hiram,  or 
Huram,  the  most  accomplished  Mason  upon  earth.^ 

And  the  prodigious  expence  of  it  also  enhaunceth 
its  excellency  ;  for  besides  King  David's  vast  pre- 
parations, his  richer    son    Solomon,  and   all  the 

«  We  read  (2  Chron.  ii.  13.)  Hikam,  King  of  Tyre,  (called  there 
Huram)  in  his  letter  to  King  Solomon,  says,  I  have  sent  a 
CUNNING  Man,  'iIlN  DIIH^  le  Huram  Abhi,  not  to  be  translated 
according  to  the  vulgar  Greek  and  Latin,  Huram  my  Father,  as 
if  this  Architect  was  King  Hiram's  Father  ;  for  his  description, 
ver.  14,  refutes  it,  and  the  original  plainly  imports,  Huram  op 
MY  Father's,  viz.  the  chief  Master-Mason  of  my  Father,  King 
Abibulus;  (who  enlarg'd  and  beautify' d  the  city  of  Tyre,  as 
ancient  histories  inform  us,  whereby  the  Tyrians  at  this  time 
were  most  expert  in  Masonry)  tho'  some  think  Hiram  the  King 
might  call  Hiram  the  Architect  Father,  as  learned  and  skillful 
men  were  wont  to  be  call'd  of  old  times,  or  as  Joseph  was  call'd 
the  Father  of  Pharaoh  ;  and  as  the  same  Hiram  is  call'd  Solo- 
mon's Father,  (2  Chron.  iv.  16.)  where  'tis  said 

SniawiMOH     lammelech      Abhif      Churam      ghnasah, 
Did  Huram,  his  Father,    make  to  King  Solomon. 

But  the  diflSculty  is  over  at  once,  by  allowing  the  word  Abif 
to  be  the  surname  of  Hiram  the  Mason,  called  also  (Chap.  ii.  13.) 
Hiram  Abi,  as  here  Hiram  Abif  ;  for  being  so  amply  describ'd, 
(Chap.  ii.  14.)  we  may  easily  suppose  his  surname  would  not  be 
conceal' d :  And  this  reading  makes  the  sense  plain  and  compleat, 
viz.  that  Hiram,  King  of  Tyre,  sent  to  King  Solomon  his  name- 
sake Hiram  Abif,  the  Prince  of  Architects,  describ'd  (i  Kings,  vii. 


FREEMASONRY.  21 

wealthy  Israelites,  and  the  nobles  of  all  the  neigh- 
bouring kingdoms,  largely  contributed  towards  it 
in  gold,  silver,  and  rich  jewels,  that  amounted  to  a 
sum  almost  incredible. 

Nor  do  we  read  of  anything  in  Canaan  so  large, 
the  wall  that  inclosed  it  being  7,700  foot  in  com- 
pass ;  far  less  any  holy  structure  fit  to  be  named 
with  it,  for  exactly  proportioned  and  beautiful  ai- 
mensions,  from  the  magnificent  porch  on  the  east  to 

14.)  to  be  a  Widow's  Son  of  the  Tribe  of  Napthali;  and  in  (2 
Chron.  ii.  14.)  the  said  King  of  Tyre  calls  him  the  son  of  a  woman 
of  the  daughters  of  Dajs  ;  and  in  both  places,  that  his  father  was 
a  man  of  Tyre ;  which  difficulty  is  remov'd,  by  supposing  his 
Mother  was  either  of  the  Tribe  of  Dan,  or  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  city  call'd  Dan  in  the  Tribe  of  Napthau,  and  his  deceased 
Father  had  been  a  Napthalite,  whence  his  Mother  was  call'd  a 
widow  of  Napthali ;  for  his  Father  is  not  call'd  a  Tyrian  by 
descent,  but  a  man  of  Tyre  by  habitation  ;  asOBEDEcoMtheLevite 
is  call'd  a  Gittite  by  living  among  the  Gittites,  and  the  Apostle 
Paul  a  man  of  Tarsus.  But  supposing  a  mistake  in  transcribers, 
and  that  his  Father  was  really  a  Tyrian  by  blood,  and  his  Mother 
only  of  the  Tribe  of  Dan  or  Napthali,  that  can  be  no  bar 
against  allowing  of  his  vast  capacity ;  for  as  his  Father  was  a 
worker  in  brass,  so  he  himself  was  fill'd  with  wisdom  and  under- 
standing, and  cunning  to  work  all  works  in  brass  :  And  as  King 
Solomon  sent  for  him,  so  King  Hiram,  in  his  letter  to  Solomon, 
says.  And  now  I  have  sent  a  cunning  man,  endued  with  under- 
standing, skilful  to  work  in  gold,  silver,  brass,  iron,  stone, 
timber,  purple,  blue,  fine  linnen  and  crimson  ;  also  ^o  grave  any 
manner  of  graving,  and  to  find  out  every  device  which  shall  be 
put  to  him,  with  thy  cunning  men,  and  with  the  cunning  men 
of  my  Lord  David  thy  Father.  This  divinely  inspired  workman 
maintain' d  this  character  in  erecting  the  Temple,  and  in  working 
the  utensils  thereof,  far  beyond  the  performances  of  Aiioliab  and 
Bkzaleel,  being  also  universally  capable  of  all  sorts  of  Masonry. 


22  HISTORY  OP 

the  glorious  and  reverend  Sanctum  Sanctorum  on 
the  west,  with  most  lovely  and  convenient  apart- 
ments for  the  Kings  and  Princes,  Priests  and  Le- 
vites,  Israelites,  and  Gentiles  also  ;  it  being  an 
House  of  Prayer  for  all  nations,  and  capable  of  re- 
ceiving in  the  Temple  proper,  and  in  all  its  courts 
and  apartments  together,  no  less  than  300,000 
people,  by  a  modest  calculation,  allowing  a  square 
cubit  to  each  person. 

And  if  we  consider  the  1,453  columns  of  Parian 
marble,  with  twice  as  many  Pillasters,  both  having 
glorious  capitals  of  several  orders,  and  about  2,246 
windows,  besides  those  in  the  pavement,  with  the 
unspeakable  and  costly  decorations  of  it  within ; 
(and  much  more  might  be  said)  we  must  conclude 
its  prospect  to  transcend  our  imagination  ;  and  that 
it  was  justly  esteemed  by  far  the  finest  piece  of 
Masonry  upon  earth  before  or  since,  and  the  chief 
wonder  of  the  world  ;  and  was  dedicated  or  con- 
secrated, in  the  most  solemn  manner,  by  King 
Solomon. 

But  leaving  what  must  not,  and  indeed  cannot 
be  communicated  by  writing,  we  may  warrantably 
affirm,  tha^t  however  ambitious  the  heathen  were  in 
cultivating  of  the  Royal  Art,  it  was  never  perfected 
until  God  condescended  to  instruct  his  peculiar 
people  in  rearing  the  above-mentioned  stately  tent, 
and  in  building  at  length  this  gorgeous  house,  fit 
for  the  special  refulgence  of  his  glory,  where  he 


FREEMASONRY.  23 

dwelt  between  the  Cherubims  on  the  Mercy-Seat, 
and  from  thence  gave  them  frequent  oraculous 
responses. 

This  most  sumptuous,  splendid,  beautiful,  and 
glorious  edifice,  attracted  soon  the  inquisitive  artists 
of  all  nations  to  spend  some  time  at  Jerusalem,  and 
survey  its  peculiar  excellencies,  as  much  as  was  al- 
lowed to  the  Gentiles,  whereby  they  soon  discovered 
that  all  the  world,  with  their  joint  skill,  came  far 
short  of  the  Israelites  in  the  wisdom  and  dexterity 
of  architecture,  when  the  wise  King  Solomon  was 
Grand  Master  of  the  Lodge  at  Jerusalem,  and  the 
learned  King  Hiram  was  Grand  Master  of  the 
Lodge  at  Tyre,  and  the  inspired  Hiram  Abif  was 
Master  of  Work,  and  Masonry  was  under  the  imme- 
diate care  and  direction  of  Heaven,  when  the  noble 
and  the  wise  thought  it  their  honour  to  be  assisting 
to  the  ingenious  Masters  and  Craftsmen,  and  when 
the  Temple  of  the  true  God  became  the  wonder  of 
all  travellers,  by  which,  as  by  the  most  perfect  pat- 
tern, they  corrected  the  architecture  of  their  own 
country  upon  their  return. 

So  that  after  the  erection  of  Solomon^s  Temple, 
Masonry  was  improved  in  all  the  neighbouring  na- 
tions ;  for  the  many  artists  employed  about  it,  under 
Hiram  Abif,  after  it  was  finished,  dispersed  them- 
selves into  Syria,  Mesopotamia,  Assyria,  Chaldea, 
Babylonia,  Media,  Persia,  Arabia,  Africa,  Lesser 
Asia,  Greece,  and  other  parts  of  Europe,  where  they 


24  HISTORY   OF 

taught  this  liberal  art  to  the  free  born  sons  of  emi- 
nent persons,  by  whose  dexterity  the  kings,  princes, 
and  potentates  built  many  glorious  piles,  and  be- 
came the  Grand  Masters,  each  in  his  own  territory, 
and  were  emulous  of  excelling  in  this  Royal  Art ; 
nay,  even  in  India,  where  the  correspondence  was 
open,  we  may  conclude  the  same ;  but  none  of  the 
nations,  nor  all  together,  could  rival  the  Israelites, 
far  less  excel  them,  in  Masonry,  and  their  Temple 
remained  the  constant  pattern.* 

Nay,  the  Grand  Monarch  Nebuchadnezar  could 
never,  with  all  his  unspeakable  advantages,  carry  up 
his  Masonry  to  the  beautiful  strength  and  magnifi- 
cence of  the  Temple  work,  which  he  had,  in  warlike 
rage,  burnt  down,  after  it  had  remained  in  splendor 

'■'  For  tlio'  the  Temple  of  Diana  at  Ephesus  is  suppos'd  to  haA^e 
been  first  built  by  some  of  Japhet's  posterity,  that  made  a  settle- 
ment in  Jonia  about  the  time  of  Moses  ;  yet  it  was  often  demol- 
ish'd,  and  then  rebuilt  for  the  sake  of  improvements  in  Masonry  ; 
and  we  cannot  compute  the  period  of  its  last  glorious  erection 
(that  became  another  of  the  seven  wonders  of  the  world)  to  be 
prior  to  that  of  Solomon's  Temple  ;  but  that  long  afterwards  the 
Kings  of  Lesser  Asia  join'd,  for  220  years,  in  finishing  it,  with 
107  columns  of  the  finest  marble,  and  many  of  them  with  most 
exquisite  sculpture  (each  at  the  expence  of  a  King,  by  the  Master- 
Mason's  Dresiphon  and  Akchiphron)  to  support  the  planked 
cieling  and  roof  of  pure  cedar,  as  the  doors  and  linings  were  of 
cypress  :  Whereby  it  became  the  mistress  of  Lesser  Asia,  in  length 
425  foot,  and  in  breadth  220  foot :  Nay,  so  admirable  a  fiibrick, 
that  Xerxes  left  it  standing  when  he  burnt  all  the  other  temples 
in  his  way  to  Greece  ;  tho'  at  last  it  was  set  on  fire  and  burnt 
down  by  a  vile  fellow,  only  for  the  lust  of  being  talk'd  of,  on 
the  very  day  that  Albxaa'i>er  the  Great  wfis  born. 


FREEMASONRY.  25 

416  years  from  its  consecration.  For  after  his  wars 
were  over,  and  general  peace  proclaimed,  he  set  his 
heart  on  architecture,  and  became  the  Grand  Mas- 
ter Mason  ;  and  having  before  led  captive  the 
ingenious  artists  of  Judea,  and  other  conquered 
countries,  he  raised  indeed  the  largest  work  upon 
earth,  even  the  walls^  and  city,  the  palaces  and 
hanging  gardens,  the  bridge  and  temple  of  Babylon, 
the  third  of  the  seven  wonders  of  the  world,  thougli 

*  In  thickness,  87  foot,  in  height  350  foot,  and  in  compass  480 
furlongs,  or  60  British  miles  in  an  exact  square  of  15  miles  a  side, 
built  of  large  bricks,  cemented  with  the  hard  bitumen  of  that 
old  vale  of  Shinar,  with  100  gates  of  brass,  or  25  a-side,  and  250 
towers  ten  foot  higher  than  the  wall. 

From  the  said  25  gates  in  each  side  went  25  streets  in  strait 
lines,  or  in  all  50  streets,  each  15  miles  long,  with  four  half 
streets  next  the  walls,  each  200  foot  broad,  as  the  entire  streets 
were  150  foot  broad  :  And  so  the  whole  city  was  thus  cut  out  into 
67G  squares,  each  being  2  miles  and  iJn  compass  ;  round  which 
were  the  houses  built  three  or  four  stories  high,  well-adorn' d, 
and  accommodated  with  yards,  gardens,  &c.  A  branch  of  the 
Euphrates  run  thro'  the  middle  of  it,  from  north  to  south,  over 
which,  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  was  built  a  stately  bridge,  in 
length  a  furlong,  and  thirty  foot  in  breadth,  by  wonderful  art, 
for  supplying  the  want  of  a  foundation  in  the  river.  At  the  two 
ends  of  this  bridge  were  two  magnificent  palaces,  the  old  palace, 
the  seat  of  ancient  Kings,  at  the  east  end,  upon  the  ground  of 
four  squares  :  and  the  new  palace  at  the  west  end,  built  by  Neb- 
uchadnezzar, upon  the  ground  of  nine  squares,  with  hanging- 
gardens  (so  much  celebrated  by  the  Greeks)  where  the  loftiest 
trees  could  grow  as  in  the  fields,  erected  in  a  square  of  400  foot, 
on  each  side,  carried  up  by  terraces,  and  sustained  by  vast  arches 
built  upon  arches,  until  the  highest  terrace  equal' d  the  height 
of  the  city-walls,  with  a  curious  aqueduct  to  water  the  whole 
gardens.     Old  Babel  improv'd,  stood  on  the  east  side  of  the  river, 

2 


26  HISTORY  OF 

vastly  inferior,  in  the  sublime  perfection  of  Masonry, 
to  the  holy,  charming,  lovely  Temple  of  God.  But 
as  the  Jewish  captives  were  of  special  use  to  Nebu- 
chadnezzar in  his  glorious  buildings,  so  being  thus 
kept  at  work,  they  retained  their  great  skill  in  Ma- 
sonry, and  continued  very  capable  of  rebuilding  the 
holy  Temple  and  city  of  Salem  upon  its  old  founda- 
tions, which  was  ordered  by  the  edict  or  decree  of 
the  grand  Cyrus,  according  to  God's  Word,  that 
had  foretold  his  exaltation  and  this  decree  :  And 

and  the  new  town  on  the  west  side,  much  larger  than  the  old, 
and  built  in  order  to  make  this  capital  exceed  old  Niniveh,  tho' 
it  never  had  so  many  inhabitants  by  one  half.  The  river  was 
begirt  with  banks  of  brick,  as  thick  as  the  city  walls,  in  length 
twenty  miles,  viz.  fifteen  miles  within  the  city,  and  two  miles 
and  a  half  above  and  below  it,  to  keep  the  water  within  its  chan- 
nel;  and  each  street  that  cross' d  the  river  had  a  brazen  gate 
leading  down  to  the  water  on  both  banks  ;  and  west  of  the  city 
was  a  prodigious  lake,  in  compass  160  miles,  with  a  canal  from 
the  river  into  it,  to  prevent  inundations  in  the  summer. 

In  the  old  town,  was  the  old  tower  of  Babel,  at  the  foundation 
a  square  of  half  a  mile  in  compass,  consisting  of  eight  square 
towers  built  over  each  other,  with  stairs  on  the  out-side  round  it, 
going  up  to  the  observatory  on  the  top,  600  foot  high  (which  is 
19  foot  higher  than  the  highest  pyramid)  whereby  they  became 
the  first  Astronomers.  And  in  the  rooms  of  the  grand  tower, 
with  arched  roofs,  supported  by  pillars  75  foot  high,  the  idola- 
trous worship  of  their  God  Belus  was  perform' d,  till  now,  that 
this  mighty  Mason  and  Monarch  erected  round  this  ancient  pile 
a  temple  of  two  furlongs  on  every  side,  or  a  mile  in  compass  ; 
where  he  lodg'd  the  sacred  trophies  of  Solomon's  Tesiple,  and  the 
golden  image  90  foot  high,  that  he  had  consecrated  in  the  plains 
of  Dura,  as  were  formerly  in  the  tower  lodg'd  many  other  golden 
images,  and  many  precious  things,  that  were  afterwards  all 
seized  by  Xerxes,  and  amounted  to  above  21  millions  sterling. 


FREEMASONRY.  27 

Cyrus,  having  constituted  Zerubbabel,  the  son  of 
Salathiel  (of  the  seed  of  David,  by  Nathan,  the 
brother  of  Solomon,  whose  royal  family  was  now 
extinct,)  the  head,  or  Prince  of  the  captivity,  and 
the  leader  of  the  Jews  and  Israelites  returning  to 
Jerusalem,  they  began  to  lay  the  foundation  of  the 
second  Temple,  and  would  have  soon  finished  it,  if 
Cyrus  had  lived ;  but  at  length  they  put  on  the 
cape-stone,  in  the  6th  year  of  Darius,  the  Persian 
monarch,  when  it  was  dedicated  with  joy  and  many 
great  sacrifices  by  Zerubbabel,  the  Prince  and 
General  Master  Mason  of  the  Jews,  about  20  years 
after  the  decree  of  the  Grand  Cyrus.  And  though 
this  Temple  of  Zerubbabel  came  far  short  of  Solo- 
mon's Temple,  was  not  so  richly  adorned  with  gold 
and  diamonds,  and  all  manner  of  precious  stones, 
nor  had  the  Shechinah  and  the  holy  relicks  of  Moses 
in  it,  &G.,  yet  being  raised  exactly  upon  Solomon's 

And  when  all  was  finish' d,  King  Nebuchadnezzar  walking  in 
state  in  his  hanging-gardens,  and  from  thence  taking  a  review 
of  the  whole  city,  proudly  boasted  of  this  his  mighty  work  ; 
saying,  is  not  this  great  Babylon,  that  I  have  built  for  the  house 
of  the  Kingdom,  by  the  might  of  my  power,  and  for  the  honour 
of  my  Majesty?  but  had  his  pride  immediately  rebuk'd  by  a 
voice  from  Heaven,  and  punish' d  by  brutal  madness  for  seven 
years,  until  he  gave  glory  to  the  God  of  Heaven,  the  Omnipotent 
Architect  of  the  Universe,  which  he  publish' d  by  a  decree  thro' 
all  his  empire,  and  dy'd  next  year,  before  his  great  Babylon  was 
little  more  than  half  inhabited  (tho'  he  had  led  many  nations 
captive  for  that  purpose) ;  nor  was  it  ever  fully  peopled  ;  for  in 
25  years  after  his  death,  the  Grand  Cyrus  conquer' d  it,  and 
remov'd  the  throne  to  Shushan  in  Persia. 


28  HISTORY  OF 

foundation,  and  according  to  his  model,  it  was  still 
the  most  regular,  symmetrical,  and  glorious  edifice 
in  the  whole  world,  as  the  enemies  of  the  Jews  have 
often  testified  and  acknowledged. 

At  length  the  Royal  Art  was  carried  into  Greece, 
whose  inhabitants  have  left  us  no  evidence  of  such 
improvements  in  Masonry,  prior  to  Solomon's 
Temple  ;*  for  their  most  ancient  buildings,  as  the 
Citadel  of  Athens,  with  the  Parthenon,  or  Temple 
of  Minerva,  the  Temples  also  of  Theseus,  of  Jupiter 
Olympius,  &c.,  their  porticos  also,  and  forums, 
their  theatres  and  gymnasiums,  their  public  halls, 
curious  bridges,  regular  fortifications,  stout  ships 
of  war,  and  stately  palaces,  were  all  erected  after 
the  Temple  of  Solomon,  and  most  of  them  even 
after  the  Temple  of  Zerubbabel. 

Nor  do  we  find  the  Grecians  arrived  to  any  con- 
siderable knowledge  in  Geometry  before  the  great 
Thales  Milesius,  the  philosopher,  who  died  in  the 
reign  of  Belshazzar,  and  the  time  of  the  Jewish 
captivity.  But  his  scholar,  the  greater  Pythago- 
ras, proved  the  author  of  the  47  th  Proposition  of 

o  The  Grecians  having  been  long  degenerated  into  barbarity, 
forgetting  their  original  skill  in  Masonry,  (which  their  fore- 
fathers brought  from  Assyria)  by  their  frequent  mixtures  with 
other  barbarous  nations,  their  mutual  invasions,  and  wasting, 
bloody  wars  ;  until  by  travelling  and  corresponding  with  the 
Asiatics  and  Egyptians,  they  reviv'd  their  knowledge  in  Geom- 
etry and  Masonry  both,  though  few  of  the  Grecians  had  the 
honour  to  own  it. 


FREEMASONRY.  29 

Euclid's  first  book,  which,  if  duly  observed,  is 
the  foundation  of  all  Masonry,  sacred,  civil,  and 
military  * 

The  people  of  Lesser  Asia  about  this  time  gave 
large  encouragement  to  Masons  for  erecting  all 
sorts  of  sumptuous  buildings,  one  of  which  must  not 
be  forgot,  being  usually  reckoned  the  fourth  of  the 
seven  wonders  of  the  world,  viz  :  the  Mausoleum,  or 
Tomb  of  Mausolus,  King  of  Caria,  between  Lycia 
and  Jonia,  at  Halicarnassus,  on  the  side  of  Mount 
Taurus,  in  that  kingdom,  at  the  command  of  Arte- 
misia, his  mournful  widow,  as  the  splendid  testi- 
mony of  her  love  to  him,  built  of  the  most  curious 
marble,  in  circuit  411  foot,  in  height  25  cubits,  sur- 
rounded with  26  columns  of  the  most  famous  sculp- 
ture, and  the  whole  open  on  all  sides,  with  arches 
73  foot  wide,  performed  by  the  four  principal  Mas- 
ter Masons  and  engravers  of  those  times,  viz  :  the 
east  side  by  Scopas,  the  west  by  Leochares,  the 
north  by  Briax,  and  the  south  by  Timotheus. 

But  after    Pythagoras,  Geometry  became  the 

c-  Pythagoras  travell'd  into  Egypt  the  year  that  Thales  dy'd, 
and  living  there  among  the  Priests  22  years,  became  expert  in 
Geometry,  and  in  all  the  Egyptian  learning,  until  he  was  cap- 
tured by  Cambyses,  King  of  Persia,  and  sent  to  Babylon,  where 
he  was  much  conversant  with  the  Chaldean  Magi,  and  the  learned 
Babylonish  Jews,  from  whom  he  borrow' d  great  knowledge,  that 
render' d  him  very  famous  in  Greece  and  Italy,  where  afterwards 
he  flourish' d  and  dy'd  ;  when  Mordecai  was  the  prime  Minister 
of  State  to  AiiASHUERrs  King  of  Persia,  and  ten  years  after  Ze- 
ritbbabel's  Temple  was  fmish'd. 


30  HISTORY   OF 

darling  study  of  Greece,  where  many  learned  philo- 
sophers arose,  some  of  whom  invented  sundry  Pro- 
positions, or  Elements  of  Geometry,  and  reduced 
them  to  the  use  of  the  mechanical  arts."^  Nor  need 
we  doubt  that  Masonry  kept  pace  with  Geometry  ; 
or  rather,  always  followed  it  in  proportioned  gradual 
improvements,  until  the  wonderful  Euclid  of  Tyre 
flourished  at  Alexandria,  who,  gathering  up  the 
scattered  elements  of  Geometry,  digested  them  into 
a  method  that  was  never  yet  mended,  (and  for  which 
his  name  will  be  ever  celebrated)  under  the  patron- 
age of  Ptolomeus,  the  son  of  Lagus,  King  of  Egypt, 
one  of  the  immediate  successors  of  Alexander  the 
Great. 

And  as  the  noble  science  came  to  be  more  metho- 
dically taught,  the  Eoyal  Art  was  the  more  gener- 
ally esteemed  and  improved  among  the  Grecians, 
who  at  length  arrived  to  the  same  skill  and  magni- 
ficence in  it  with  their  teachers,  the  Asiatics  and 
Egyptians. 

The  next  King  of  Egypt,  Ptolomeus  Philadel- 
PHUS,  that  great  improver  of  the  liberal  arts  and  of 

<*  Or  borrow' d  from  other  nations  their  pretended  inventions, 
as  Anaxagoras,  Oenopides,  Briso,  Antipho,  Democritus,  Hippo- 
crates, and  TiiEODORUs  Ctren^us,  the  Master  of  the  divine  Plato, 
who  amplify' d  Geometry,  and  published  the  Arts  Analytic  ;  from 
whose  Academy  came  forth  a  vast  number,  that  soon  dispers'd 
their  knowledge  to  distant  parts,  as  Leodamus,  TnEJirETUs,  Arcii- 
YTAS,  Leon,  Eudoxus,  Menaicumus,  and  Xenocrates,  the  Master 
of  Aristotle,  from  whose  Academy  also  came  forth  Eudemus, 
Theopiirastus,  ARisTiEUS,  Isidorus,  Hypsicles,  and  many  others. 


FREEMASONRY.  31 

all  useful  knowledge,  who  gathered  the  greatest  li- 
brary upon  earth,  and  had  the  Old  Testament  (at 
least  the  Pentateuch)  first  translated  into  Greek, 
became  an  excellent  architect  and  General  Master 
Mason,  having,  among  his  other  great  buildings, 
erected  the  famous  Tower  of  Pharos,^  the  fifth  of 
the  seven  wonders  of  the  world. 

We  may  readily  believe  that  the  African  nations, 
even  to  the  Atlantick  shore,  did  soon  imitate  Egypt 
in  such  improvements,  though  history  fails,  and 
there  are  no  travellers  encouraged  to  discover  the 
valuable  remains  in  Masonry  of  those  once  renowned 
nations. 

Nor  should  we  forget  the  learned  Island  of  Sicily, 
where  the  prodigious  Geometrician  Archimedes 
did  flourish,!  and  was  unhappily  slain  when  Syra- 

^  On  an  Island  near  Alexandria,  at  one  of  the  mouths  of  the 
Nile,  of  wonderful  height  and  most  cunning  workmanship,  and 
all  of  the  finest  marble,  and  it  cost  800  talents,  or  about  480,000 
crowns.  The  Master  of  Work,  under  the  King,  was  Sistratus,  a 
most  ingenious  Mason  ;  and  it  was  afterwards  much  admired  by 
Julius  C^sak,  who  was  a  good  judge  of  most  things,  though 
chiefly  conversant  in  war  and  politicks.  It  was  intended  as  a 
light-house  for  the  harbor  of  Alexandria,  from  which  the  light- 
houses in  the  Mediterranean  were  often  called  Pharos.  Though 
some,  instead  of  this,  mention  as  the  fifth  wonder  the  great  Obe- 
lisk of  Semieamis,  150  foot  high,  and  24  foot  square  at  bottom, 
or  90  foot  in  circuit  at  the  ground,  all  one  intire  stone,  rising 
pyramidically,  brought  from  Armenia  to  Babylon  about  the  time 
of  the  siege  of  Troy,  if  we  may  believe  the  history  of  Semiramis. 

f  While  Ekatosthenes  and  Conon  flourished  in  Greece,  who 
were  succeeded  by  the  excellent  Apollonius  of  Perga,  and  many 


32  HISTORY  OF 

cuse  was  taken  by  Marcellus,  the  Roman  General ; 
for  from  Sicily,  as  well  as  from  Greece,  Egypt  and 
Asia,  the  ancient  Romans  learned  both  the  science 
and  the  art,  what  they  knew  before  being  either 
mean  or  irregular  ;  but  as  they  subdued  the  nationsi 
they  made  mighty  discoveries  in  both  ;  and,  like  wise 
men,  led  captive,  not  the  body  of  the  people,  but  the 
arts  and  sciences,  with  the  most  eminent  professors 
and  practitioners,  to  Rome,  which  thus  became  the 
center  of  learning,  as  well  as  of  imperial  poAver,  un- 
til they  advanced  to  their  zenith  of  glory,  under 
Augustus  CiESAR,  (in  whose  reign  was  born  God's 
Messiah,  the  great  Architect  of  the  Church,)  who, 
having  laid  the  world  quiet,  by  proclaiming  univer- 
sal peace,  highly  encouraged  those  dexterous  artists 
that  had  been  bred  in  the  Roman  liberty,  and  their 
learned  scholars  and  pupils  ;  but  particularly  the 
great  Vitruvius,  the  father  of  all  true  architects  to 
this  day. 

Therefore  it  is  rationally  believed  that  the  glo- 
rious Augustus  became  the  Grand  Master  of  the 
Lodge  at  Rome,  having,  besides  his  patronizing 
Vitruvius,  much  promoted  the  welfare  of  the  Fel- 
low Craftsmen,  as  appears  by  the  many  magnificent 
buildings  of  his  reign,  the  remains  of  which  are  the 
pattern  and  standard  of  true  Masonry  in  all  future 

luoro  before  the  birth  of  Christ,  who,  though  not  working 
Masong,  yet  were  good  Surveyors  ;  or  at  least  cultivated  Geome- 
try, which  is  the  solid  basis  of  true  Masonry,  and  its  rule. 


FREEMASONRY.  33 

times,  as  they  are  indeed  an  epitome  of  the  Asiatic, 
Egyptian,  Grecian,  and  Sicilian  architecture,  which 
we  often  express  by  the  name  of  the  Augustan  style, 
and  which  we  are  now  only  endeavouring  to  imi- 
tate, and  have  not  yet  arrived  to  its  perfection. 

The  old  records  of  Masons  aiford  large  hints  of 
their  Lodges  from  the  beginning  of  the  world,  in 
the  polite  nations,  especially  in  times  of  peace,  and 
when  the  civil  powers,  abhorring  tyranny  and  sla- 
very, gave  due  scope  to  the  bright  and  free  genius 
of  their  happy  subjects  ;  for  then  always  Masons, 
above  all  other  artists,  were  the  favourites  of  the 
eminent,  and  became  necessary  for  their  grand  un- 
dertakings in  any  sort  of  materials,  not  only  in 
stone,  brick,  timber,  plaister,  but  even  in  cloth  or 
skins,  or  whatever  was  used  for  tents,  and  for  the 
various  sorts  of  architecture. 

Nor  should  it  be  forgot  that  painters  also  and 
statuaries"^  were  always  reckoned  good  Masons,  as 

^  For  it  was  not  without  good  reason  the  ancients  thought 
that  the  rules  of  the  beautiful  proportions  in  building  were 
copied  or  taken  from  the  proportions  of  the  body  natural.  Hence 
Phidias  is  reckoned  in  the  number  of  ancient  Masons,  for  erect- 
ing the  statue  of  the  goddess  Nemesis  at  Ehamnus,  10  cubits  high, 
and  that  of  Minerva  at  Athens,  26  cubits  high ;  and  that  of 
Jupiter  Oltmpius,  sitting  in  his  temple  in  Achaia,  between  the 
cities  of  Elis  and  Pisa,  made  of  innumerable  small  pieces  of  por- 
phyry, so  exceeding  grand  and  proportioned  that  it  was  reckoned 
one  of  the  seven  wonders,  as  the  famous  Colossus  at  Rhodes  was 
another,  and  the  greatest  statue  that  ever  was  erected,  made  of 
metal,  and  dedicated  to  the  sun,  70  cubits  high,  like  a  great 
tower  at  a  distance,  at  the  entry  of  an  harbour,  striding  wide 


34  HISTORY  OP 

much  as  builders,  stone-cutters,  bricklayers,  carpen- 
ters, joiners,  upholders,  or  tent-makers,  and  a  vast 
many  other  craftsmen  that  could  be  named,  who 
perform  according  to  Geometry  and  the  rules  of 
building  ;  though  none  since  Hiram  Abif  has  been 
renowned  for  cunning  in  all  parts  of  Masonry  ;  and 
of  this  enough. 

But  among  the  heathen,  while  the  noble  science 
Geometry"^  was  duly  cultivated,  both  before  and 
after  the  reign  of  Augustus,  even  till  the  fifth  cen- 
tury of  the  Christian  aera.  Masonry  was  had  in 
great  esteem  and  veneration ;  and  while  the  Roman 
empire  continued  in  its  glory,  the  Royal  Art  was 
carefully  propagated,  even  to  the  Ultima  Thule,  and 
a  Lodge  erected  in  almost  every  Roman  garrison  ; 
whereby  they  generously  communicated  their  cun- 
ning to  the  northern  and  western  parts  of  Europe, 
which  had  grown  barbarous  before  the  Roman  con- 
enough  for  the  largest  ships  under  sail,  built  in  12  years  by 
Cares,  a  famous  Mason  and  statuary  of  Sicyon,  and  scholar  to 
the  great  Lysippus  of  the  same  fraternity.  This  mighty  Colossus, 
after  standing  56  years,  fell  by  an  earthquake,  and  lay  in  mines, 
the  wonder  of  the  world,  till  Anno  Dom.  600,  when  the  Soldan 
of  Egypt  carried  off  its  relicks,  which  loaded  900  camels, 

o  By  Menelaus,  Claudius,  Ptolomeus,  (who  was  also  the  Prince 
of  Astronomers)  Plutarch,  Eutocius  (who  recites  the  inventions 
of  PniLO,  DiocLES,  NicoMEDES,  Spuorus,  and  Heron,  the  learned 
mechanick,)  Ktesibius  also,  the  inventor  of  pumps  (celebrated  by 
ViTRUVius,  Proclus,  Pliny,  and  Athenj3us)  and  Geminus,  also 
equalled  by  some  to  Euclid  ;  so  Diopiiantus,  Nicomachus,  Se- 
EENUS,  Proclus,  Pappus,  Tiieon,  &c  ,  all  Geometricians,  and  the 
illustrious  cultivators  of  the  mechanical  arts. 


FREEMASONRY.  35 

quest,  though  we  know  not  certainly  how  long  ;  be- 
cause some  think  there  are  a  few  remains  of  good 
Masonry  before  that  period  in  some  parts  of  Europe, 
raised  by  the  original  skill  that  the  first  colonies 
brought  with  them,  as  the  Celtic  edifices,  erected  by 
the  ancient  Gauls,  and  by  the  ancient  Britains  too, 
who  were  a  colony  of  the  Celtes,  long  before  the 
Romans  invaded  this  island.* 

But  when  the  Goths  and  Yandals,  that  had  never 
been  conquered  by  the  Romans,  like  a  general 
deluge  over-ran  the  Roman  empire,  with  warlike 
rage  and  gross  ignorance  they  utterly  destroyed 
many  of  the  finest  edifices,  and  defaced  others,  very 
few  escaping,  as  the  Asiatic  and  African  nations  fell 
under  the  same  calamity  by  the  conquests  of  the 
Mahometans,  whose  grand  design  is  only  to  convert 
the  world  by  fire  and  sword,  instead  of  cultivating 
the  arts  and  sciences. 

Thus,  upon  the  declension  of  the  Roman  empire, 

^-  The  natives  within  the  Roman  colonies  might  be  first  in- 
structed in  building  of  citadels  and  bridges,  and  other  fortifica- 
tions necessary  ;  and  afterwards,  when  their  settlement  produced 
peace,  and  liberty,  and  plenty,  the  aborigines  did  soon  imitate 
their  learned  and  polite  conquerors  in  Masonry,  having  then 
leisure  and  a  disposition  to  raise  magnificent  structures.  Nay, 
even  the  ingenious  of  the  neighbouring  nations  not  conquered, 
learnt  much  from  the  Eoman  garrisons  in  times  of  peace  and 
open  correspondence,  when  they  became  emulous  of  the  Roman 
glory,  and  thankful  that  their  being  conquered  was  the  means 
of  recovering  them  from  ancient  ignorance  and  prejudices,  when 
they  began  to  delight  in  the  Royal  Art. 


36  HISTORY   OP 

when  the  British  garrisons  were  drained,  the  Angles 
and  other  lower  Saxons,  invited  by  the  ancient 
Britons  to  come  over  and  help  them  against  the 
Scots  and  Picts,  at  length  subdued  the  south  part 
of  this  island,  which  they  called  England,  or  Land 
of  the  Angles,  who,  being  akin  to  the  Goths,  or 
rather  a  sort  of  Vandals,  of  the  same  warlike  dispo- 
sition, and  as  ignorant  heathens,  encouraged  nothing 
but  war,  till  they  became  Christians  ;  and  then  too 
late  lamented  the  ignorance  of  their  fathers  in  the 
great  loss  of  Roman  Masonry,  but  knew  not  how  to 
repair  it. 

Yet,  becoming  a  free  people,  (as  the  old  Saxon 
laws  testify)  and  having  a  disposition  for  Masonry, 
they  soon  began*  to  imitate  the  Asiatics,  Grecians, 
and  Romans,  in  erecting  of  Lodges  and  encouraging 

<*  No  doubt  several  Saxon  and  Scotish  Kings,  with  many  of 
the  nobility,  great  gentry,  and  eminent  clergy,  became  the  Grand 
Masters  of  those  early  Lodges,  from  a  mighty  zeal  then  prevalent 
for^building  magnificent  Christian  temples ;  which  would  also 
prompt  them  to  inquire  after  the  laws,  charges,  regulations,  cus- 
toms, and  usages  of  the  ancient  Lodges,  many  of  which  might  be 
preserved  by  tradition,  and  all  of  them  very  likely  in  those  parts 
of  the  British  Islands  that  were  not  subdued  by  the  Saxons,  from 
whence  in  time  they  might  be  brought,  and  which  the  Saxons 
were  more  fond  of,  than  careful  to  revive  Geometry  and  Roman 
Masonry  ;  as  many  in  all  ages  have  been  more  curious  and  care- 
ful about  the  laws,  forms,  and  usages  of  their  respective  societies, 
than  about  the  arts  and  sciences  thereof. 

But  neither  what  was  convey'd,  nor  the  manner  how,  can  be 
communicated  by  writing,  as  no  man  can  indeed  understand  it 
^thout  the  key  of  a  Fellow  Craft.  " 


FREEMASONRY.  37 

of  Masons,  being  taught  not  only  from  the  faithful 
traditions  and  valuable  remains  of  the  Britons,  but 
even  by  foreign  Princes,  in  whose  dominions  the 
Royal  Art  had  been  preserved  much  from  Gothic 
ruins,  particularly  by  Charles  Martell,  King  of 
France,  who,  according  to  the  old  records  of  Ma- 
sons, sent  over  several  expert  craftsmen  and  learned 
architects  into  England,  at  the  desire  of  the  Saxon 
kings  ;•  so  that  during  the  heptarchy,  the  Gothic 
architecture  was  as  much  encouraged  here  as  in 
other  Christian  lands. 

And  though  the  many  invasions  of  the  Danes  oc- 
casioned the  loss  of  many  records,  yet  in  times  of 
truce  or  peace  they  did  not  hinder  much  the  good 
work,  though  not  performed  according  to  the  Au- 
gustan style  ;  nay,  the  vast  expence  laid  out  upon 
it,  with  the  curious  inventions  of  the  artists  to  sup- 
ply the  Roman  skill,  doing  the  best  they  could,  de- 
monstrate their  esteem  and  love  for  the  Royal  Art, 
and  have  rendered  the  Gothic  buildings  venerable, 
though  not  imitable  by  those  that  relish  the  ancient 
architecture. 

And  after  the  Saxons  and  Danes  were  conquered 
by  the  Normans,  as  soon  as  the  wars  ended  and 
peace  was  proclaimed,  the  Gothic  Masonry  was  en- 
couraged, even  in  the  reign  of  the  Conqueror,*  and 

«  William  the  Conqueror  built  the  Tower  of  London,  and 
many  strong  castles  in  the  country,  with  several  religious  edi- 
fices, whose  example  was  followed  by  the  nobility  and  clergy, 


38  HISTORY   OP 

of  his  son  King  William  Rufus,  who  built  West- 
minster Hall,  the  largest  one  room  perhaps  in  the 
earth. 

Nor  did  the  Barons'  wars,  nor  the  many  bloody 
wars  of  the  subsequent  Norman  kings,  and  their 
contending  branches,  much  hinder  the  most  sump- 
tuous and  lofty  buildings  of  those  times,  raised  by 
the  great  clergy,  (who,  enjoying  large  revenues, 
could  well  bear  the  expence,)  and  even  by  the  Crown 
too  ;  for  we  read  King  Edward  III.  had  an  officer 
called  the  King's  Free  Mason,  or  General  Surveyor 
of  his  buildings,  whose  name  was  Henry  Yevele, 
employed  by  that  king  to  build  several  abbeys,  and 
St.  Stephen's  Chappel  at  Westminster,  where  the 
House  of  Commons  now  sit  in  Parliament. 

But  for  the  further  instruction  of  candidates  and 
younger  brethren,  a  certain  record  of  Freemasons, 
written  in  the  reign  of  King  Edward  IY.  of  the 
Norman  line,  gives  the  following  account,  viz : 

That  though  the  ancient  records  of  the  brother- 
hood in  England  were  many  of  them  destroyed  or 
lost  in  the  wars  of  the  Saxons  and  Danes,  yet  King 
Athelstan,  (the  grandson  of  King  Alfrede  the 
Great,  a  mighty  architect)  the  first  anointed  King 
of  England,  and  who  translated  the  Holy  Bible  into 
the  Saxon  tongue,  when  he  had  brought  the  land 

particiilarly  by  Roger  de  Montgomery.  Earl  of  Arundel,  the  Arch- 
bishop of  York,  the  Bishop  of  Durham,  and  Gundulph,  Bishop 
of  Rochester,  a  mighty  architect. 


FREEMASONRY.  39 

into  rest  and  peace,  built  many  great  works,  and 
encouraged  many  Masons  from  France,  wlio  were 
appointed  overseers  thereof,  and  brought  with  them 
the  Charges  and  Regulations  of  the  Lodges,  pre- 
served since  the  Roman  times,  who  also  prevailed 
with  the  king  to  improve  the  Constitution  of  the 
English  Lodges  according  to  the  foreign  model,  and 
to  increase  the  wages  of  working  Masons. 

That  the  said  King's  youngest  son,  Prince  Edwin, 
being  taught  Masonry,  and  taking  upon  him  the 
Charges  of  a  Master  Mason,  for  the  love  he  had  to 
the  said  craft,  and  the  honourable  principles  where- 
on it  is  grounded,  purchased  a  free  charter  of  King 
Athelstan,  his  father,  for  the  Masons  having  a  cor- 
rection among  themselves,  (as  it  was  anciently 
expressed)  or  a  freedom  and  power  to  regulate 
themselves,  to  amend  what  might  happen  amiss, 
and  to  hold  a  yearly  communication  and  General 
Assembly. 

That  accordingly  Prince  Edwin  summoned  all 
the  Masons  in  the  realm  to  meet  him  in  a  congrega- 
tion at  York,  who  came  and  composed  a  General 
Lodge,  of  which  he  was  Grand  Master  ;  and  having 
brought  with  them  all  the  writings  and  records  ex- 
tant, some  in  Greek,  some  in  Latin,  some  in  French, 
and  other  languages,  from  the  contents  thereof  that 
Assembly  did  frame  the  Constitution  and  Charges 
of  an  English  Lodge,  made  a  law  to  preserve  and 


40  HISTORY   OP 

observe  the  same  in  all  time  coming,  and  ordained 
good  pay  for  working  Masons,  &g. 

That  in  process  of  time,  when  Lodges  were  more 
frequent,  the  right  worshipful  the  Master  and  Fel- 
lows, with  consent  of  the  lords  of  the  realm,  (for 
most  great  men  were  then  Masons)  ordained  that 
for  the  future,  at  the  making  or  admission  of  a 
brother,  the  Constitution  should  be  read,  and  the 
Charges  hereunto  annexed,  by  the  Master  or  Ward- 
en ;  and  that  such  as  were  to  be  admitted  Master 
Masons,  or  Masters  of  Work,  should  be  examined 
whether  they  be  able  of  cunning  to  serve  their  re- 
spective Lords,  as  well  the  lowest  as  the  highest,  to 
the  honour  and  worship  of  the  aforesaid  art,  and  to 
the  profit  of  their  Lords  ;  for  they  be  their  Lords 
that  employ  and  pay  them  for  their  service  and 
travel. 

And  besides  many  other  things,  the  said  record 
adds,  that  those  Charges  and  laws  of  Freemasons 
have  been  seen  and  perused  by  our  late  Sovereign 
King  Henry  VI.  and  by  the  Lords  of  his  honourable 
Council,  who  have  allowed  them,  and  said  that  they 
be  right  good  and  reasonable  to  be  holden,  as  they 
have  been  drawn  out  and  collected  from  the  records 
of  ancient  times.* 

o  In  another  manuscript  more  ancient,  we  read :  "That  when 
*'the  Master  and  Wardens  meet  in  a  Lodge,  if  need  bo,  the 
"  Sheriff  of  the  county,  or  the  Mayor  of  the  city,  or  Alderman  of 
"  the  town,  in  which  the  congregation  is  lield,  should  be  made 


FREEMASONRY.  41 

Now,  thougli  in  the  third  year  of  the  said  King 
Henry  YI.,  while  an  infant  of  about  four  years  old, 
the  Parliament  made  an  act  that  affected  only  the 
working  Masons,  who  had,  contrary  to  the  statutes 
for  labourers,  confederated  not  to  work  but  at 
their  own  price  and  wages ;  and  because  such  agree- 
ments were  supposed  to  be  made  at  the  General 
Lodges,  called  in  the  act  Chapters  and  Congrega- 
tions of  Masons,  it  was  then  thought  expedient  to 
level  the  said  act  against  the  said  congregations  ;* 

"  Fellow  and  Sociate  to  the  Master,  in  help  of  him  against  rebels, 
**  and  for  upbearing  the  rights  of  the  realm. 

"  That  Enter' d  Prentices  at  their  making  were  charg'd  not  to 
*'  be  thieves,  or  thieves  maintainors  ;  that  they  should  travel 
"honestly  for  their  pay,  and  love  their  Fellows  as  themselves, 
"  and  be  true  to  the  King  of  England,  and  to  the  realm,  and  to 
"  the  Lodge. 

"That  at  such  congregations  it  shall  be  enquir'd  whether  any 
*'  Master  or  Fellow  has  broke  any  of  the  articles  agreed  to.  And 
**  if  the  offender,  being  duly  cited  to  appear,  prove  rebel,  and  will 
"  not  attend,  then  the  Lodge  shall  determine  against  him  that  he 
"  shall  forswear  (or  renounce)  his  Masonry,  and  shall  no  more 
"  use  this  craft ;  the  which,  if  he  presume  for  to  do,  the  Sheriff 
' '  of  the  county  shall  prison  him,  and  take  all  his  goods  into  the 
"  King's  hands,  till  his  grace  be  granted  him  and  issued:  For 
"  this  cause  principally  have  these  congregations  been  ordain'd, 
*'  that  as  well  the  lowest  as  the  highest  should  be  well  and  truly 
' '  served  in  this  art  foresaid  throughout  all  the  kingdom  of 

"  England. 

"  Amen,  so  mote  it  be." 

«■  Tertio  Hksrici  Skxti,  cap.  I.  An.  Dom.  1425. 

Title — Masons  shall  not  confederate  themselves  in  chapters  and 
congregations. 

"Whereas,  by  yearly  congregations  and  confederacies,  made 
"by  the  Masons  in  their  General  Assemblies,  the  good  course 


42  HISTORY   OP 

yet  when  the  said  King  Henry  VI.  arrived  to  man^s 
estate,  the  Masons  laid  before  him  and  his  Lords 
the  above-mentioned  Records  and  Charges,  who,  'tis 
plain,  reviewed  them,  and  solemnly  approved  of 
them  as  good  and  reasonable  to  be  holden  :  Nay, 
the  said  King  and  his  Lords  must  have  been  incor- 
porated with  the  Freemasons  before  they  could 
make  such  review  of  the  Records  ;  and  in  this  reign, 
before  King  Henry's  troubles,  Masons  were  much 
encouraged.  Nor  is  there  any  instance  of  execut- 
ing that  act  in  that  or  in  any  other  reign  since,  and 
the  Masons  never  neglected  their  Lodges  for  it,  nor 
ever  thought  it  worth  while  to  employ  their  noble 
and  eminent  brethren  to  have  it  repealed  ;  because 
the  working  Masons  that  are  free  of  the  Lodge 
scorn  to  be  guilty  of  such  combinations ;  and  the 
other  free  Masons  have  no  concern  in  trespasses 
against  the  statutes  for  labourers.* 

**  and  effect  of  the  statutes  for  labourers  be  openly  violated  and 
'*  broken,  in  subversion  of  the  law,  and  to  the  great  damage  of 
*'  all  the  Commons,  our  said  Sovereign  Lord  the  King,  willing  in 
*'  this  case  to  provide  a  remedy,  by  the  advice  and  assent  afore- 
**  said,  and  at  the  special  request  of  the  Commons,  hath  ordained 
"  and  established  that  such  chapters  and  congregations  shall  not 
**  be  hereafter  holden  ;  and  if  any  such  be  made,  they  that  cause 
**  such  chapters  and  congregations  to  be  assembled  and  holden, 
*•  if  they  thereof  be  convict,  shall  be  judged  for  felons,  and  that 
"  the  other  Masons  that  come  to  such  chapters  and  congregations 
"be  punished  by  imprisonment  of  their  bodies,  and  make  fine 
'*  and  ransome  at  the  King's  will." — Co.  Inst.  3  p.  99. 

o  That  act  was  made  in  ignorant  times,  when  true  learning 
was  a  crime,  and  Geometry  condemn' d  for  conjuration ;  but  it 


FREEMASONRY.  43 

The  Kings  of  Scotland  very  much  encouraged  the 
Royal  Art,  from  the  earliest  times  down  to  the 
union  of  the  crowns,  as  appears  by  the  remains  of 
glorious  buildings  in  that  ancient  kingdom,  and  by 
the  Lodges  there  kept  up  without  interruption  many 
hundred  years,  the  records  and  traditions  of  which 
testify  the  great  respect  of  those  kings  to  this 
honourable  fraternity,  who  gave  always  pregnant 
evidence  of  their  love  and  loyalty,  from  whence 
sprung  the  old  toast  among  Scots  Masons,  viz  : 
God  bless  the  King  and  the  Craft ! 

Nor  was  the  royal  example  neglected  by  the  no- 
bility, gentry,  and  clergy  of  Scotland,  who  joined  in 
everything  for  the  good  of  the  craft  and  brother- 
hood, the  kings  being  often  the  Grand  Masters,  un- 
til, among  other  things,  the  Masons  of  Scotland 

cannot  derogate  from  the  honour  of  the  ancient  fraternity,  who 
to  be  sure  would  never  encourage  any  such  confederacy  of  their 
working  brethren.  But  by  tradition  it  is  believ'd  that  the  Par- 
liament men  were  then  too  much  influenced  by  the  illiterate 
clergy,  who  were  not  accepted  Masons,  nor  understood  architec- 
ture, (as  the  clergy  of  some  former  ages)  and  generally  thotight 
unworthy  of  this  brotherhood  ;  yet  thinking  they  had  an  inde- 
feasible right  to  know  all  secrets,  by  vertue  of  auricular  confes- 
sion, and  the  Masons  never  confessing  anything  thereof,  the  said 
clergy  were  highly  offended,  and  at  first  suspecting  them  of 
wickedness,  represented  them  as  dangerous  to  the  State  duruig 
that  minority,  and  soon  influenc'd  the  Parliament  men  to  lay 
hold  of  such  supposed  agreements  of  the  working  Masons,  for 
making  an  act  that  might  seem  to  reflect  dishonour  upon  even 
the  whole  worshipful  fraternity,  in  whose  favour  several  acts  had 
been  both  before  and  after  that  period  made 


44  HISTORY  OF 

were  impowered  to  have  a  certain  and  fixed  Grand 
Master  and  Grand  Warden,  who  had  a  salary  from 
the  Crown,  and  also  an  acknowledgment  from  every 
new  brother  in  the  kingdom  at  entrance,  whose 
business  was  not  only  to  regulate  what  might  hap- 
pen amiss  in  the  brotherhood,  but  also  to  hear  and 
finally  determine  all  controversies  between  Mason 
and  Lord,  to  punish  the  Mason,  if  he  deserved  it, 
and  to  oblige  both  to  equitable  terms  ;  at  which 
hearings,  if  the  Grand  Master  was  absent,  (who  was 
always  nobly  born)  the  Grand  Warden  presided. 
This  privilege  remained  till  the  civil  wars,  but  is 
now  obsolete ;  nor  can  it  well  be  revived  until  the 
King  becomes  a  Mason,  because  it  was  not  actually 
exerted  at  the  union  of  the  kingdoms. 

Yet  the  great  care  that  the  Scots  took  of  true 
Masonry  proved  afterwards  very  useful  to  England, 
for  the  learned  and  magnanimous  Queen  Elizabeth, 
who  encouraged  other  arts,  discouraged  this  ;  be- 
cause, being  a  woman,  she  could  not  be  made  a 
Mason,  though,  as  other  great  women,  she  might 
have  much  employed  Masons,  like  Semiramis  and 
Artemisia.* 

o  ELizABKTn,  being  jealous  of  any  assemblies  of  her  subjects, 
whose  business  she  was  not  duly  appriz'd  of,  attempted  to  break 
up  the  annual  communication  of  Masons,  as  dangerous  to  her 
government ;  but  as  old  Masons  have  transmitted  it  by  tradition, 
when  the  noble  persons  her  Majesty  had  commissioned,  and 
brought  a  sufficient  posse  with  them  at  York  on  St.  John's  Day, 
were  once  admitted  into  the  Lodge,  they  made  no  use  of  arms, 


FREEMASONRY.  45 

But  upon  her  demise,  King  James  YI.  of  Scot- 
land, succeeding  to  the  crown  of  England,  being  a 
Mason  King,  revived  the  English  Lodges  ;  and  as 
he  was  the  first  King  of  Great  Britain,  he  was  also 
the  first  Prince  in  the  world  that  recovered  the 
Roman  architecture  from  the  ruins  of  Gothic  igno- 
rance ;  for,  after  many  dark  or  illiterate  ages,  as 
soon  as  all  parts  of  learning  revived,  and  Geometry 
recovered  its  ground,  the  polite  nations  began  to 
discover  the  confusion  and  impropriety  of  the 
Gothick  buildings ;  and  in  the  fifteenth  and  six- 
teenth centuries,  the  Augustan  stile  was  raised 
from  its  rubbish  in  Italy  by  Bramante,  Barbaro, 
Sansovino,  Sangallo,  Michael  Angelo,  Raphael 
Urbin,  Julio  Romano,  Serglio,  Labaco,  Scamozi, 
ViGNOLA,  and  many  other  bright  architects ;  but 
above  all,  by  the  great  Palladio,  who  has  not  yet 
been  duly  imitated  in  Italy,  though  justly  rivalled 
in  England,  by  our  great  Master  Mason,  Inigo 
Jones. 

But  though  all  true  Masons  honour  the  memories 
of  those  Italian  architects,  it  must  be  owned  that 
the  Augustan  stile  was  not  revived  by  any  crowned 
head  before  King  James  the  Sixth  of  Scotland  and 
First  of  England,  patronized  the  said  glorious  Inigo 

and  return' d  the  Queen  a  most  honourable  account  of  the  ancient 
fraternity,  whereby  her  political  fears  and  doubts  were  dispell' d, 
and  she  let  them  alone,  as  a  people  much  respected  by  the  noble 
and  the  wise  of  all  the  polite  nations,  but  neglected  the  art  all 
her  reign. 


46  HISTORY  OF 

Jones,  whom  he  employed  to  build  his  Royal  Palace 
of  Whitehall  ;  and  in  his  reign  over  all  Great 
Britain,  the  Banqueting-house,  as  the  first  piece  of 
it,  was  only  raised,  which  is  the  finest  one  room 
upon  earth ;  and  the  ingenious  Mr.  Nicholas 
Stone  performed  as  Master  Mason  under  the  archi- 
tect Jones. 

Upon  his  demise,  his  son  King  Charles  I.,  being 
also  a  Mason,  patronized  Mr.  Jones  too,  and  firmly 
intended  to  have  carried  on  his  royal  father's  de- 
sign of  Whitehall,  according  to  Mr.  Jones's  style ; 
but  was  unhappily  diverted  by  the  civil  wars.* 
After  the  wars  were  over,  and  the  royal  family  re- 
stored, true  Masonry  was  likewise  restored,  espe- 

^'  The  plan  and  prospect  of  that  glorious  design  being  still 
preserv'd,  it  is  esteem' d  by  skillful  architects  to  excel  that  of 
any  other  palace  in  the  known  earth,  for  the  symmetry,  firm- 
ness, beauty  and  conveniency  of  architecture,  as  indeed  all  Mas- 
ter Jones's  designs  and  erections  are  originals,  and  at  first  view- 
discover  him  to  be  the  architect :  Nay,  his  mighty  genius  pre- 
vail'd  with  the  nobility  and  gentry  of  all  Britain,  (for  he  was 
as  much  honour' d  in  Scotland  as  in  England)  to  affect  and  revive 
the  ancient  stile  of  Masonry,  too  long  neglected,  as  appears  by 
the  many  curious  fabricks  of  those  times,  one  of  which  shall  be 
now  mention' d,  the  least,  and  perhaps  one  of  the  finest,  the 
famous  Gate  of  the  Physic  Garden  at  Oxford,  rais'd  by  Henrt 
Danvers,  Earl  of  Danby,  which  cost  his  Lordship  many  hundred 
pounds,  and  is  as  curious  a  little  piece  of  Masonry  as  ever  was 
built  there  before  or  since,  Avith  the  following  inscription  on  the 
front  of  it,  viz  : 

GLORIA  DEI  OPTIMI  MAXIMI,  HONORI  CAROLI  REGIS, 
IN  USUM  ACADEMIiE  ET  REIPUBLICJ5,  ANNO  1632. 
HENRICUS  COMES  DANBY. 


FREEMASONRY.  47 

cially  upon  the  unhappy  occasion  of  the  burning  of 
London,  Anno  1C66  ;  for  then  the  city  houses  were 
rebuilt  more  after  the  Roman  style,  when  King 
Charles  II.  founded  the  present  St.  PauFs  Cathe- 
dral in  London,  (the  old  Gothick  fabrick  being 
burnt  down)  much  after  the  style  of  St.  Peter's  at 
Rome,  conducted  by  the  ingenious  architect,  Sir 
Christopher  Wren.  That  king  founded  also  his 
royal  Palace  at  Greenwich,  according  to  Mr.  Inigo 
Jones's  design,  (which  he  drew  before  he  died)  con- 
ducted by  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Web  ;  it  is  now 
turned  into  an  hospital  for  seamen.  He  founded 
also  Chelsea  College,  an  hospital  for  soldiers ;  and 
at  Edinburgh  he  both  founded  and  finished  his 
royal  Palace  of  Halyrood  House,  by  the  design  and 
conduct  of  Sir  William  Bruce,  Bart.,  the  Master  of 
the  Royal  Works  in  Scotland  f  so  that,  besides  the 
tradition  of  old  Masons  now  alive,  which  may  be 
relied  on,  we  have  much  reason  to  believe  that  King 
Charles  II.  was  an  accepted  Freemason,  as  every 
one  allows  he  was  a  great  encourager  of  the  crafts- 
men. 

But  in  the  reign  of  his  brother  King  James  IL, 
though  some  Roman  buildings  were  carried  on,  the 

^  It  was  an  ancient  Eoyal  Palace,  and  rebuilt  after  the  Augus- 
tan style,  so  neat  that  by  competent  judges  it  has  been  esteem' d 
the  finest  house  belonging  to  the  Crown ;  and  though  it  is  not 
very  large,  it  is  both  magnificent  and  convenient,  both  inside 
and  outside,  with  good  gardens,  and  a  very  large  park,  and  all 
other  adjacent  accommodations. 


48  HISTORY   OF 

Lodges  of  Freemasons  in  London  much  dwindled 
into  ignorance,  by  not  being  duly  frequented  and 
cultivated.  But^  after  the  revolution,  Anno  1688, 
King  William,  though  a  warlike  Prince,  having  a 
good  taste  of  architecture,  carried  on  the  aforesaid 
two  famous  hospitals  of  Greenwich  and  Chelsea, 
built  the  fine  part  of  his  royal  Palace  of  Hampton 
Court,  and  founded  and  finished  his  incomparable 
Palace  at  Loo,  in  Holland,  &g.  And  the  bright 
example  of  that  glorious  Prince  (who  by  most  is 
reckoned  a  Freemason)  did  influence  the  nobility, 
the  gentry,  the  wealthy  and  the  learned  of  Great 
Britain,  to  afi'ect  much  the  Augustan  style,  as  ap- 
pears by  a  vast  number  of  most  curious  edifices 

^  But  by  the  royal  example  of  his  brother,  King  Charles  II., 
the  city  of  London  erected  the  famous  Monument,  where  the 
great  fire  began,  all  of  solid  stone,  202  foot  high  from  the 
ground,  a  pillar  of  the  Dorick  order,  15  foot  diameter,  with  a 
curious  stair-case  in  the  middle  of  black  marble,  and  an  iron 
balcony  on  the  top,  (not  unlike  those  of  Trajan  and  Antokinus 
at  Kome)  from  whence  the  city  and  suburbs  may  be  view'd, 
and  it  is  the  highest  column  we  know  upon  earth.  Its  pedestal 
is  21  foot  square  and  forty  foot  high,  the  front  of  which  is 
adorn' d  with  most  ingenious  emblems  in  basso  relievo,  wrouglit 
by  that  famous  sculptor  Mr.  Gabriel  Gibber,  with  large  Latin 
inscriptions  on  the  sides  of  it,  founded  Anno  1671,  and  finish'd 
Anno  1677. 

In  his  time  also  the  Society  of  Merchant  Adventurers  rebuilt 
the  Royal  Exchange  of  London,  (the  old  one  being  destroy' d  by 
the  fire)  all  of  stone,  after  the  Roman  style,  the  finest  structure 
of  that  use  in  Europe,  with  the  King's  statue  to  the  life,  of  white 
marble,  in  the  middle  of  the  Square,  (wrought  by  the  famous 
Master  Carver  and  Statuary,  Mr.  Grinlin  Gibboxs,  who  was  justly 


FREEMASONRY.  49 

erected  since  throughout  the  kingdom  ;  for,  when  in 
the  ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  our  late  Sovereign 
Queen  Anne,  her  Majesty  and  the  Parliament  con- 
curred in  an  act  for  erecting  50  new  parish  churches 
in  London,  Westminster,  and  suburbs ;  and  the 
Queen  had  granted  a  commission  to  several  of  the 
Ministers  of  State,  the  principal  nobility,  great 
gentry,  and  eminent  citizens,  the  two  Archbishops, 
with  several  other  Bishops  and  dignified  clergymen, 
to  put  the  act  in  execution  ;  they  ordered  the  said 

adinir'd  all  over  Europe,  for  his  rivalling,  if  not  surpassing  the 
most  fam'd  Italian  Masters,)  on  the  pedestal  of  which  is  the  fol- 
lowing inscription,  viz : 

Carolo  II.  CiisARi  Britannkx)  To  Cbc.vrle3  n.  Emperor  of  Britain 

Paitul/E  Patri  Father  of  his  Couxtry 

Rbgum  Optuio  Clemextissimo  Best  most  merqfui,  axd 

AuGusnssiMO  August  of  Kings 

Generis  Husiani  Deucus  Deugot  of  JIankind 

Utriusque  FoRTUJf^  VicroRi  In  Adversity  and  Prosperity  unmov'd 

Pacis  Europe  Arbitro  UMPIR^:  of  Europe's  PEAcas 

Marium  Domino  ac  Vindici  Commander  and  Sovereign  of  tiie  Seas 

SocsETAS  I^Leroatorum  Advbntur.  The  Socibty  of  JIerchant  Adventurers  ov 

AnGUJE  K\GL.iND. 

Qu^  per  CCCC  jam  prope  antsos  Which  for  near  CCCC  Yeaib 

Regia  BENiGNrrATE  floret  Br  Royal  Favour  Flourishetii 

Fidei  Lxtemerat^  EI  Gratitudlms  Of  tjn^aken  Loyalty  and  eternal 

^tern.-s  Gratttude 

Hoc  TKSTIMO^^UM  This  Testimont 

Venkrabunda  Posun  Has  In  Veneration  erbcted 

Anno  Salutis  Humane  MDCLXXXIV.  In  the  Year  of  Salvation  MDCLXXXIT. 

Nor  should  we  forget  the  famous  Theatre  of  Oxford,  built  by- 
Archbishop  Sheldon,  at  his  sole  cost,  in  that  King's  time,  which, 
among  his  other  fine  works,  was  design'd  and  conducted  also  by 
vSir  Christopher  Wren,  the  King's  architect;  for  it  is  justly  ad- 
mir'd  by  the  curious:  and  the  Musteum  adjoining  to  it,  a  fine 
building  rais'd  at  the  charge  of  that  illustrious  University,  where 
there  have  been  since  erected  several  more  Roman  buildings,  as 

3 


50  HISTORY  OF 

new  churches  to  be  raised  according  to  the  ancient 
Koman  style,  as  appears  by  those  that  are  already 
raised  ;  and  the  present  honourable  Commissioners 
having  the  same  good  judgment  of  architecture,  are 
carrying  on  the  same  laudable  grand  design,  and 
are  reviving  the  ancient  style,  by  the  order,  counte- 
nance, and  encouragement  of  his  present  Majesty 
King  George,  who  was  also  graciously  pleased  to 
lay  the  first  stone  in  the  foundation  of  his  parish 
church  of  St.  Martin's  in  Campis,  on  the  south-east 
corner,  (by  his  Majesty's  proxy  for  the  time,  the 
present  Bishop  of  Salisbury)  which  is  now  rebuild- 
ing, strong,  large  and  beautiful,  at  the  cost  of  the 
parishioners.* 

In  short,  it  would  require  many  large  volumes  to 
contain  the  many  splendid  instances  of  the  mighty 

Trinity-College  Chappel,  Allhallows  Church  in  High- street,  Peck- 
water-square  in  Christ-Church  College,  the  new  Printing-house, 
and  the  whole  of  Queen' s-College  rebuilt,  &c.,  by  the  liberal  do- 
nations of  some  eminent  benefactors,  and  by  the  publick  spirit, 
vigilancy,  and  fidelity  of  the  heads  of  Colleges,  who  generally 
have  had  a  true  taste  of  Roman  architecture. 

The  learned  University  of  Cambridge  not  having  had  the  man- 
agement of  such  liberal  donations,  have  not  so  many  fine  struc- 
tures; but  they  have  two  of  the  most  curious  and  excellent  in 
Great-Britain  of  their  kind,  the  one  a  Gothic  building,  King's- 
College  Chappel  (unless  you  except  King  Henry  VII. 's  Chappel  in 
Westminster- Abbey);  and  the  other  a  Roman  building,  Trinity- 
College  Library. 

*»  The  Bishop  of  Salisbury  went  in  an  orderly  procession,  duly 
attended,  and  having  levell'd  the  first  stone,  gave  it  two  or  three 
knocks  with  a  mallet,  upon  which  the  trumpets  sounded,  and  a 


FREEMASONRY.  51 

influence  of  Masonry  from  the  creation,  in  every 
age  and  in  every  nation,  as  could  be  collected  from 
historians  and  travellers  ;  but  especially  in  those 
parts  of  the  world  where  the  Europeans  correspond 
and  trade,  such  remains  of  ancient,  large,  curious, 
and  magnificent  colonading,  have  been  discovered 
by  the  inquisitive,  that  they  can't  enough  lament 
the  general  devastations  of  the  Goths  and  Mahome- 
tans ;  and  must  conclude  that  no  art  was  ever  so 
much  encouraged  as  this,  as  indeed  none  other  is  so 
extensively  useful  to  mankind.^ 

Nay,  if  it  were  expedient,  it  could  be  made  ap- 
pear, that  from  this  ancient  fraternity,  the  Societies 

vast  multitude  made  loud  acclamations  of  joy;  when  his  Lordship 
laid  upon  the  stone  a  purse  of  100  guineas,  as  a  present  from  his 
Majesty  for  the  use  of  the  craftsmen.  The  following  inscription 
was  cut  in  the  foundation  stone,  and  a  sheet  of  lead  put  upon 
it,  viz  : 

D.  S,  Sacred  to  God 

SEREX19SIMU3  ReX  GEORGIUS  HiS  MOST  EXCELLENT  ILAJESTY  KIXG  GEORGE 

Per  Depctatum  suum  By  his  Proxy 

Reterkvdum  admodum  in  Christo  Patrem    The  Right  Rea-erend  Father  in  Christ 
RiCHARDUM  Episcopl'^m  Saiusburjexsem        Richard  Lord  Bishop  of  Sausbury 
SuMMUM  suuM  Eleemosyxarium  His  Majesty's  Ciukf  Almoxkr 

Adsistexte  (Regis  Jussu)  Assisted  (At  His  Majesty's  Command) 

Domino  Tho.  He  wet  Equ.  Aur.  By  Sir  Thomas  He  wet  Knight 

JSomaoRUM  Regiobum  Cdratore  Of  His  Majesty's  Royal  Buildings 

Princtpau  PRiNaPAL  Surveyor 

Primcm  hujus  Ecclesle  Lapidem  The  First  Stone  of  this  Church 

Posurr  Laid 

Martij  19o  Anno  Dom.  1721.  This  19th  of  March  Anno  Domini  1721 

Annoqub  Regni  sui  octavo.  Ant)  the  Eighth  Year  of  his  Reign. 

«  It  were  endless  to  recount  and  describe  the  many  curious 
Roman  buildings  in  Great-Britain  alone,  erected  since  the  revival 
of  Roman  Masonry;  of  which  a  few  may  be  here  mentioned,  be- 
sides those  already  spoken  of,  viz  : 


52 


HISTORY  OF 


or  Orders  of  the  warlike  kniglits,  and  of  tlie  reli- 
gious too,  in  process  of  time  did  borrow  many 
solemn  usages  ;  for  none  of  them  were  better  insti- 
tuted, more  decently  installed,  or  did  more  sacredly 
observe  their  laws  and  Charges,  than  the  Accepted 
Masons  have  done,  who,  in  all  ages  and  in  every 


Belonging  to  the  Ckown. 

The  Crow.v. 

Possess 'd  by  the  Duke  of 

QUEKNSBUKY. 

Duke  of  Ancaster. 


Duke  of  Bedford. 
Earl  of  Pembkoke. 
Earl  of  Strafford. 

Arundel  Esq; 
Hon.  Wm.  Staxuope,  Esq; 
Earl  Stanhope. 
Lord  Carleton. 


The  Queen's  House  at  Greenwich, 

Tlie  great  Gallery  in  Somerset-Gardens,    . 

Gunnersbury-House  near  Brentford,  Middlceex, 

Lindsay-House,  in  Llncoln's-Inn-Fields,     . 
York-Stairs  at  the  Thames  in  York-Buildings . 
St.  Paul's-Church  in  Covent-Garden,  with 

its  glorious  Portico. 
The  Building  and  Piazza  of  Covent-Garden, 
Wilton-Castle  in  Wiltshire,         .... 
Castle-Ashby  in  Northamptonshire,  . 

Stoke-Park  in  ditto,  

Wing-House  in  Bedfordshire,     .... 
Cbevening-House  in  Kent,  .... 

Ambrose  Bury  in  Wiltshire,       .... 

All  designed  by  the  incomparable  Inwo  Jones,  and  most  of  them 
conducted  by  him,  or  by  his  son-in-law  Mr.  Web,  according  to 
Mr.  Jones's  designs. 

Besides  many  more  conducted  by  other  architects,  influcnc'd 
by  the  same  happy  genius;  such  as, 
Bow-Church  Steeple  in  Chcapside,     . 
Hotham-Honse  in  Beverley,  Yorkshire,     . 
Melvin-House  in  Fife,         .... 
LongleateHouse  in  Wiltshire,     . 
Cliesterlee-strect-House  in  Durham  County, 
Montague- House  in  Bloomsbury,  London, 
Drumlanrig-Castle  in  Nithisdaleshire, 
Castle-Howard  in  Yorkshire,      . 
Stainborough-House  in  ditto, 
Hopton- Castle  in  Linlithgowshire, 
Blenheim-Castle  at  Woodstock,  Oxfordshire, 
Chatsworth-Castle  in  Derbyshire, 
I'alace  of  Hammiiton  in  Clydsdaleshire,    . 
Wanstead-House  in  Epping-Fcrest,  Essex, 


Duncomb-Park  in  Yorkshire, 
Mereworth-Castlo  in  Kent, 


Built  by  Sir  Chri.  Wren. 
Sir  Charles  Hotuam  Bart. 
Earl  of  Levin. 
Viscount  Weymouth. 
John  Hed worth  E-^q; 
Duke  of  Montagu. 
Duke  of  Queensbury. 
Earl  of  Cakuslk. 
Earl  of  Strafford. 
Earl  of  Hopton. 
Duke  of  Marlborough. 
Duke  of  DEVo.xsnmE. 
Duke  of  Hammilton. 
Lord  Castlemain. 
Thomas  Dcncomb  Esq; 
Hon.  John  Fane  Rsq; 


FREEMASONRY.  53 

nation,  have  maintained  and  propagated  their  con- 
cernments in  a  way  peculiar  to  themselves,  which 
the  most  cunning  and  the  most  learned  cannot  pene- 
trate into,  though  it  has  been  often  attempted,  while 
they  know  and  love  one  another,  even  without  the 
help  of  speech,  or  when  of  different  languages. 


sterling-House  near  Sterling-Castle, 
Kinross-House  in  Kinrossshire, 
Stourton-Castle  in  Wiltshire, 
Willbury-House  in  ditto,     . 
Bute-Castle  in  Isle  of  Bute, 
Walpole-House  near  Lin  Regis,  Norfolk, 


Duke  of  Argtle. 

Sir  WiLUAM  Bruce  Bart. 

Hexry  Hoar  Esq; 

"WiLLiAii  Benson  Esq; 

Earl  of  Bute. 

Hon.  Rob.  Walpole  Esq; 


^  wiSfSrns^e?,''  '"^  ^'''^^^"^'  ^*-  •^^^"''''  {  Earl  of  BuKm-Giox. 

Dormitory  of  King's-Scliool,  Westminster,        .        .     The  Crown. 
Totteuham-Park  in  Wiltshire,     .  ...    Lord  Bruce. 

These  three  last  are  design' d  and  conducted  by  the  Earl  of 
Burlington,  who  bids  fair  to  be  the  best  architect  of  Britain,  (if 
he  is  not  so  already)  and  we  hear  his  Lordship  intends  to  pub- 
lish the  valuable  remains  of  Mr.  Iniqo  Jones,  for  the  improvement 
of  other  architects. 

Besides  more  of  the  same  Roman  style,  and  yet  many  more  in 
imitation  of  it,  which  though  they  cannot  be  reduc'd  to  any  cer- 
tain style,  are  stately,  beautiful,  and  convenient  structures, 
notwithstanding  the  mistakes  of  their  several  architects :  and 
besides  the  sumptuous  and  venerable  Gothic  buildings,  past 
reckoning,  as  cathedrals,  parish-churches,  chappels,  bridges,  old 
palaces  of  the  Kings,  of  the  Nobility,  of  the  Bishops,  and  the 
gentry,  known  well  to  travellers,  and  to  such  as  peruse  the 
histories  of  counties,  and  the  ancient  monuments  of  great  fami- 
lies, &c.,  as  many  erections  of  the  Roman  style  may  be  review'd 
in  Mr.  Campbell  the  architect's  ingenious  book,  call'd  Vitruvius 
Britannicus :  and  if  the  disposition  for  true  ancient  Masonry 
prevails,  for  some  time,  with  noblemen,  gentlemen,  and  learned 
men,  (as  it  is  likely  it  will)  this  Island  vnll  become  the  Mistress 
of  the  Earth,  for  designing,  drawing,  and  conducting,  and  capa- 
ble to  instruct  all  other  Nations  in  all  things  relating  to  the 
Royal  Art. 


54  HISTORY   OF    FREEMASONRY. 

And  now  the  free-born  British  nations,  disen- 
tangled from  foreign  and  civil  wars,  and  enjoying 
the  good  fruits  of  peace  and  liberty,  having  of  late 
much  indulged  their  happy  genius  for  Masonry  of 
every  sort,  and  revived  the  drooping  Lodges  of 
London,  this  fair  metropolis  flourisheth,  as  well  as 
other  parts,  with  several  worthy  particular  Lodges, 
that  have  a  quarterly  communication  and  an  annual 
Grand  Assembly,  wherein  the  forms  and  usages  of 
the  most  ancient  and  worshipful  fraternity  are 
wisely  propagated,  and  the  Royal  Art  duly  culti- 
vated, and  the  cement  of  the  brotherhood  preserved  ; 
so  that  the  whole  body  resembles  a  well  built  arch, 
several  noblemen  and  gentlemen  of  the  best  rank, 
with  clergymen  and  learned  scholars  of  most  pro- 
fessions and  denominations,  having  frankly  joined 
and  submitted  to  take  the  Charges,  and  to  wear  the 
badges  of  a  Free  and  Accepted  Mason,  under  our 
present  worthy  Grand  Master,  the  Most  Noble 
Prince  John,  Duke  of  Montague. 


THE 


Cl)argc0  of  a  jTue-iHason, 

EXTRACTED  FEOM 

THE  ANCIENT  RECORDS  OF  LODGES  BEYOND  SEA, 

AND   OF  THOSE  IN 

ENGLAND,  SCOTLAND  AND  IRELAND, 

FOR  THE  tSE  OF  THE  LODGES  IN  LONDON. 

To  be  read  at  the  making  of  New  Brethren,  or  when  the  Master 
shall  order  it. 


The    (HSftntVal    fJ^taXiUy   viz:  — I. 

F  God  and  Eeligioa. 

IL  Of  the  Civil  Magistrate,  Supreme 
and  Subordinate. 

in.  Of  Lodges. 

IV.  Of  Masters,  Wardens,  Fellows,  and 
Apprentices. 

V.  Of  the   Management  of  the   Craft  in 

working. 

VI.  Of  Behaviour,  viz. 

1.  In  the  Lodge  while  Constituted. 

2.  After  the  Lodge  is  over  and  the  Brethren  not  gone. 

3.  When  Brethren  meet  without  Strangers,  bat  not  in  a  Lodge. 

4.  In  Presence  of  Strangers  not  Masons. 

5.  At  Home  and  in  the  Neighbourhood. 

6.  Towards  a  strange  Brother. 


r;6  ANCIENT    CHARGES. 

I.— ©onccrnins  &ott  anlr  aaeUgion. 

A  Mason  is  oblig'd,  by  his  Tenure,  to  obey  the  Moral  Law  ; 
and  if  he  rightly  understands  the  Art,  he  will  never  be  a 
stupid  Atheist,  nor  an  irreligious  Libertine.  But  though  in 
ancient  Times  Masons  were  charg'd  in  every  Country  to  be 
of  the  Religion  of  that  Country  or  Nation,  whatever  it  was, 
'tis  now  thought  more  expedient  only  to  oblige  them  to  that 
Religion  in  which  all  Men  agree,  leaving  their  particular 
Opinions  to  themselves  ;  that  is,  to  be  good  men  and  true,  or 
Men  of  Honour  and  Honesty,  by  whatever  Denominations  or 
Persuasions  they  may  be  distinguished ;  whereby  Masonry 
becomes  the  Center  of  Union,  and  the  Means  of  conciliating 
true  Friendship  among  persons  that  must  have  remain'd  at 
a  perpetual  Distance. 

n.— ©f  ttje  eribtl  i^afiistrate,  Supreme  nnti  Sufi  orb  luate, 

A  Mason  is  a  peaceable  Subject  to  the  Civil  Powers 
wherever  he  resides  or  works,  and  is  never  to  be  concern'd 
in  Plots  and  Conspiracies  against  the  Peace  and  Welfare  of 
the  Nation,  nor  to  behave  himself  undutifully  to  inferior 
Magistrates  ;  for  as  Masonry  hath  been  always  injured  by 
War,  Bloodshed,  and  Confusion,  so  ancient  Kings  and  Princes 
have  been  much  dispos'd  to  encourage  the  Craftsmen,  because 
of  their  Peaceableness  and  Loyalty,  whereby  they  practically 
answer'd  the  Cavils  of  their  Adversaries,  and  promoted  the 
Honor  of  the  Fraternity,  who  ever  flourish'd  in  Times  of 
Peace.  So  that  if  a  Brother  should  be  a  Rebel  against  the 
State,  he  is  not  to  bo  countenanc'd  in  his  Rebellion,  however 
he  may  be  pitied  as  an  unhappy  iMan  ;  and,  if  convicted  of 
no  other  Crime,  though  the  loyal  1  Motherhood  must  and  ought 
to  disown  his  Rebellion,  and  givo  no  Umbrage  or  Ground  of 
political  Jealousy  to  the  Government  for  the  time  being 
they  cannot  expel  him  from  the  Lodge,  and  his  Relation  to  i< 
remains  indefeasible. 


ANCIENT    CHARGES.  57 

m.— <©t  Hotrfies. 

A  Lodge  is  a  Place  where  Masons  assemble  and  work: 
Hence  that  Assembly,  or  duly  organiz'd  Society  of  Masons,  is 
call'd  a  Lodge,  and  every  Brother  ought  to  belong  to  one,  and 
to  be  subject  to  its  By-laws  and  the  G-eneral  Regulations.  It 
is  either  Particular  or  General,  and  will  be  best  understood 
by  attending  it,  and  by  the  Regulations  of  the  General  or 
Grand  Lodge  hereunto  annex'd.  In  ancient  Times,  no  Mas- 
ter or  Fellow  could  be  absent  from  it,  especially  when  warn'd 
to  appear  at  it,  without  incurring  a  severe  Censure,  until  it 
appear'd  to  the  Master  and  Wardens,  that  pure  Necessity 
hinder'd  him. 

The  Persons  admitted  Members  of  a  Lodge  must  be  good 
and  true  Men,  free-born,  and  of  mature  and  discreet  Age,  no 
Bondmen,  no  Women,  no  immoral  or  scandalous  Men,  but  of 
good  Report. 

IV.— ®t  i^asters,  W&nvtstns,  JFellotos  an&  ^ppvtntittB* 

All  Preferment  among  Masons  is  grounded  upon  real  Worth 
and  personal  Merit  only;  that  so  the  Lords  may  be  well 
served,  the  Brethren  not  put  to  Shame,  nor  the  Royal  Craft 
despis'd :  Therefore  no  Master  or  Warden  is  chosen  by 
Seniority,  but  for  his  Merit.  It  is  impossible  to  describe 
these  things  in  writing,  and  every  Brother  must  attend  in  his 
Place,  and  learn  them  in  a  way  peculiar  to  This  Fraternity  : 
Only  Candidates  may  know,  that  no  Master  should  take  an 
Apprentice,  unless  he  has  sufficient  Imployment  for  him,  and 
unless  he  be  a  perfect  Youth,  having  no  Maim  or  Defect  in 
his  Body,  that  may  render  him  uncapable  of  learning  the  Art 
of  serving  his  Master's  Lord,  and  of  being  made  a  Brother, 
and  then  a  Fellow-Craft  in  due  time,  even  after  he  has  served 
such  a  Term  of  Years  as  the  Custom  of  the  Country  directs  ; 
and  that  he  should  be  descended  of  honest  Parents  ;  that  so, 
when  otherwise  qualify'd,  he  may  arrive  to  the  Honour  of 
being  the  Warden,  and  then  the  Master  of  the  Lodge,  the 
3* 


5g  ANCIENT   CHARGES. 

Grand  Warden,  and  at  length  the  Grand  Master  of  all  the 
Lodges,  according  to  his  Merit. 

No  Brother  can  be  a  Warden  until  he  has  pass'd  the  part 
of  a  Fellow-Craft ;  nor  a  Master  until  he  has  acted  as  a  War- 
den, nor  Grand-Warden  until  he  has  been  Master  of  a  Lodge, 
nor  Grand  Master  unless  he  has  been  a  Fellow-Craft  before 
his  Election,  who  is  also  to  be  nobly  born,  or  a  Gentleman  of 
the  best  Fashion,  or  some  eminent  Scholar,  or  some  curious 
Architect,  or  other  Artist,  descended  of  honest  Parents,  and 
who  is  of  singular  great  Merit  in  the  Opinion  of  the  Lodges. 
And  for  the  better,  and  easier,  and  more  honourable  Dis- 
charge of  his  Office,  the  Grand  Master  has  a  Power  to  chuse 
his  own  Deputy  Grand  Master,  who  must  be  then,  or  must 
have  been  formerly,  the  Master  of  a  particular  Lodge,  and 
has  the  Privilege  of  acting  whatever  the  Grand-Master,  his 
Principal,  should  act,  unless  the  said  Principal  be  present,  or 
interpose  his  Authority  by  a  Letter. 

*  These  Rulers  and  Governors,  Supreme  and  Subordinate,  of 
the  ancient  Lodge,  are  to  be  obey'd  in  their  respective  Sta- 
tions by  all  the  Brethren,  according  to  the  old  Charges 
and  Regulations,  with  all  Humility,  Reverence,  Love,  and 
Alacrity. 

v.— ®f  t|)e  i^anagement  of  titt  Qtvait  in  toorfeiitff. 

All  Masons  shall  work  honestly  on  working  Days,  that  they 
may  live  creditably  on  Holy  Days  ;  and  the  time  appointed 
by  the  Law  of  the  Land,  or  confirm'd  by  Custom,  shall  be 
observ'-d. 

The  most  expert  of  the  Fellow-Craftsmen  shall  be  chosen 
or  appointed  the  Master,  or  Overseer  of  the  Lord's  Work ; 
who  is  to  be  call'd  Master  by  those  that  work  under  him. 
The  Craftsmen  are  to  avoid  all  ill  Language,  and  to  call  each 
other  by  no  disobliging  Name,  but  Brother  or  Fellow ;  and 
to  behave  themselves  courteously  within  and  without  the 
Lodge. 

The  Master  knowing  himself  to  be  able  of  Cunning,  shall 


ANCIENT    CHARGES.  59 

undertake  the  Lord's  Work  as  reasonably  as  possible,  and 
truly  dispend  his  Goods  as  if  they  were  his  own ;  nor  to  give 
more  Wages  to  any  Brother  or  Apprentice  than  he  really  may 
deserve. 

Both  the  Master  and  the  Masons  receiving  their  Wages 
justly,  shall  be  faithful  to  the  Lord,  and  honestly  finish  their 
Work,  whether  Task  or  Journey  ;  nor  put  the  Work  to  Task 
that  hath  been  accustom'd  to  Journey. 

None  shall  discover  Envy  at  the  Prosperity  of  a  Brother, 
nor  supplant  him,  or  put  him  out  of  his  Work,  if  he  be  capable 
to  finish  the  same  ;  for  no  man  can  finish  another's  Work  so 
much  to  the  Lord's  profit,  unless  he  be  thorouglily  acquainted 
with  the  Designs  and  Draughts  of  hifci  that  began  it. 

When  a  Fellow-Craftsman  is  chosen  Warden  of  the  Work 
under  the  Master,  he  shall  be  true  both  to  Master  and  Fel- 
lows, shall  carefully  oversee  the  Work  in  the  Master's  Ab- 
sence to  the  Lord's  Profit ;  and  his  Brethren  shall  obey  him. 

All  Masons  employ'd  shall  meekly  receive  their  Wages 
without  Murmuring  or  mutiny,  and  not  desert  the  Master  till 
the  Work  is  finish'd. 

A  Younger  Brother  shall  be  instructed  in  working,  to  pre- 
vent spoiling  the  Materials  for  want  of  Judgment,  and  for  en- 
creasing  and  continuing  of  Brotherly  Love. 

All  the  Tools  used  in  worldng  shall  be  approved  by  the 
Grand  Lodge. 

No  Labourer  shall  be  employ'd  in  the  proper  Work  of 
Masonry ;  nor  shall  Fbee  Masons  work  with  those  that  are 
not  free,  without  an  urgent  Necessity ;  nor  shall  they  teach 
Labourers  and  unaccepted  Masons,  as  they  should  teach  a 
Brother  or  Fellow. 

VI.— ®f  5Set)abiour,  viz. 

1. — In  the  Lodge  while  constituted. 
You  are  not  to  hold  private  Committees,  or  separate  Con- 
versation, without  Leave  from  the  Master,  nor  to  talk  of  any 
thing  impertinent  or  unseemly,  nor  interrupt  the  Master  or 


60  ANCIENT  CHARGES. 

Wardens,  or  any  Brother  speaking  to  the  Master :  Nor  behave 
yourself  ludicrously  or  jestingly  while  the  Lodge  is  engaged 
in  what  is  serious  and  solemn ;  nor  use  any  unbecoming  Lan- 
guage upon  any  Pretence  whatsoever ;  but  to  pay  due  Rev- 
erence to  your  Master,  Wardens,  and  Fellows,  and  put  them 
to  worship. 

If  any  Complaint  be  brought,  the  Brother  found  guilty 
shall  stand  to  the  Award  and  Determination  of  the  Lodge, 
who  are  the  proper  and  competent  Judges  of  all  such  Con- 
troversies, (unless  you  carry  it  by  Appeal  to  the  Grand  Lodge) 
and  to  whom  they  ought  to  be  referr'd,  unless  a  Lord's  Work 
be  hinder'd  the  mean  while,  in  which  Case  a  particular  Refer- 
ence may  be  made ;  but  you  must  never  go  to  Law  about 
what  concerneth  Masonry,  without  an  absolute  Necessity 
apparent  to  the  Lodge. 

2. — Behaviour  after  the  Lodge  is  over  and  the  JBrethren  not  gone. 
You  may  enjoy  yourselves  with  innocent  Mirth,  treating 
one  another  according  to  Ability,  but  avoiding  all  Excess,  or 
forcing  any  Brother  to  eat  or  drink  beyond  his  Inclination, 
or  hindering  him  from  going  when  his  Occasions  call  him,  or 
doing  or  saying  any  thing  offensive,  or  that  may  forbid  an 
easy  and  free  Conversation ;  for  that  would  blast  our  Harmony, 
and  defeat  our  laudable  Purposes.  Therefore  no  private 
Piques  or  Quarrels  must  be  brought  within  the  Door  of  the 
Lodge,  far  less  any  Quarrels  about  Religion,  or  Nations,  or 
State  Policy,  we  being  only,  as  Masons,  of  the  Catholick  Reli- 
gion above-mention'd ;  we  are  also  of  all  Nations,  Tongues, 
Kindreds,  and  Languages,  and  are  resolv'd  against  all  Poli- 
ticks, as  what  never  yet  conduc'd  to  the  Welfare  of  the  Lodge, 
nor  ever  will.  This  Charge  has  been  always  strictly  enjoin'd 
and  observ'd ;  but  especially  ever  since  the  Reformation  in 
Britain,  or  the  Dissent  and  Secession  of  the^e  Nations  from 
the  Communion  of  Rome. 


ANCIENT     CHARGES.  fj] 

3. — Behaviour  when  Brethren  meet  wiihcmt  Strangers,  but  not  in  a 
Lodge  form'd. 

You  are  to  salute  one  another  in  a  courteous  manner,  as 
you  will  be  instructed,  calling  each  other  Brother,  freely  giv- 
ing mutual  Insti'uction  as  shall  be  thought  expedient,  without 
being  overseen  or  overheard,  and  without  encroaching  upon 
each  other,  or  derogating  from  that  Respect  which  is  due  to 
any  Brother,  were  he  not  a  Mason :  For  though  all  Masons 
are  as  Brethren  upon  the  same  Level,  yet  Masonry  takes  no 
Honour  from  a  Man  that  he  had  before ;  nay,  rather  it  adds 
to  his  Honour,  especially  if  he  has  deserv'd  well  of  the 
Brotherhood,  who  must  give  Honour  to  whom  it  is  due,  and 
avoid  ill  Manners. 

4. — Behaviour  in  Presence  of  Strangers  not  Maso7is. 
You  shall  be  cautious  in  your  Words  and  Carriage,  that  the 
most  penetrating  Stranger  shall  not  be  able  to  discover  or 
find  out  what  is  not  proper  to  be  intimated  ;  and  sometimes 
./ou  shall  divert  a  discourse,  and  manage  it  prudently  for  the 
Honour  of  the  Worshipful  Fraternity. 

5. — Behaviour  at  Home,  and  in  your  Neighbourhood. 
You  are  to  act  as  becomes  a  moral  and  wise  Man ;  particu- 
larly, not  to  let  your  Family,  Friends,  and  Neighbours  know 
the  Concerns  of  the  Lodge,  &c.,  but  wisely  to  consult  your 
own  Honour,  and  that  of  the  Ancient  Brotherhood,  for  Rea- 
sons not  to  be  mention'd  here.  You  must  also  consult  your 
Health,  by  not  continuing  together  too  late,  or  too  long  from 
home,  after  Lodge  Hours  are  past;  and  by  avoiding  of 
Ghittony  or  Drunkenness,  that  your  Families  be  not  neglected 
or  injured,  nor  you  disabled  from  working. 

6. — Behaviour  towards  a  Strange  Brother. 
You  are  cautiously  to  examine  him,  in  such  a  Method  as 
Prudence  shall  direct  you,  that  you  may  not  be  impos'd  upon 


C2  A.NCIENT     CHARGES. 

by  an  ignorant  false  Pretender,  whom  you  are  to  reject  with 
Contempt  and  Derision,  and  beware  of  giving  him  any  Hints 
of  Knowledge. 

But  if  you  discover  him  to  be  a  true  and  genuine  Brother, 
you  are  to  respect  him  accordingly  ;  and  if  he  is  in  want,  you 
must  relieve  him  if  you  can,  or  else  direct  him  how  he  may 
be  reliev'd :  You  must  employ  him  some  Days,  or  else 
recommend  him  to  be  employ'd.  But  you  are  not  charged  to 
do  beyond  your  Ability,  only  to  prefer  a  poor  Brother,  that  is 
a  Good  Man  and  True,  before  any  other  poor  People  in  the 
same  Circumstances. 

Filially,  All  these  Charges  you  are  to  observe,  and  also 
those  that  shall  be  oommunicattd  to  you  in  Another  way  ; 
cultivating  Brotherly-Love,  the  Foundation  and  Cape-stono, 
the  Cement  and  Glory  of  this  ancient  Fraternity,  avoiding  all 
Wrangling  and  Quarrelling,  aU  Slander  and  Backbiting,  nor 
permitting  others  to  slander  any  honest  Brother,  but  defend- 
ing his  Character,  and  doing  him  all  good  Ofiices,  as  far  as  is 
consistent  with  your  Honour  and  Safety,  and  no  farther.  And' 
if  any  of  them  do  you  Injury,  you  must  apply  to  your  own  or 
his  Lodge ;  and  from  thence  you  may  appeal  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  at  the  Quarterly  Communication,  and  from  thence  to 
the  Annual  Grand  Lodge,  as  has  been  the  ancient  laudable 
Conduct  of  our  Fore-fathers  in  every  Nation ;  never  taking  a 
Legal  Course,  but  when  the  Case  cannot  be  otherwise  decided, 
and  patiently  listening  to  the  honest  and  friendly  Advice 
of  Master  and  Fellows,  when  they  would  prevent  you  going 
to  Law  with  Strangers,  or  would  excite  you  to  put  a  speedy 
period  to  all  Law-suits,  that  so  you  may  mind  the  Affair  of 
Masonry  with  the  more  Alacrity  and  Success ;  but  with  re- 
spect to  Brothers  or  Fellows  at  Law,  the  Master  and  Brethren 
should  kindly  offer  their  Mediation,  which  ought  to  bo  thank- 
fully submitted  to  by  the  contending  Brethren ;  and  if  that 
submission  is  impracticable,  they  must  liovvever  carry  on 
their  Process,  or  Law-Suit,  without  Wrath  and  Rancor,  (not 


ANCIENT     CHARGES. 


6.; 


in  the  coramon  way,)  saying  or  doing  notliing  wliicti  may 
hinder  Brotlierly  Love,  and  good  Offices  to  bo  renew'd  and 
continu'd  ;  that  all  may  see  the  Benign  Influence  of  Masonry, 
as  all  true  Masons  have  done  from  the  Beginning  of  the 
World,  and  will  do  to  the  End  of  Time. 

^meiT,  350  mote  it  tt* 


POSTSCRIPT. 

A  Worthy  Brother,  learned  in  the  Law,  has  communicated 
to  the  Author  (while  this  Sheet  was  printing)  the  Opinion  of 
the  Great  Judge  Coke  upon  the  Act  against  Masons,  3  lien. 
VI.  Cap.  I.,  which  is  printed  in  this  Book,  Page  35,  and  which 
Quotation  the  Author  has  compar'd  with  the  Original,  viz. 

Coke's  Institutes,  third  Paet,  Fol.  99. 

The  Cause  wherefore  this  Offense  was  made  Felony,  is  for 
that  the  good  Course  and  Effect  of  the  Statutes  of  Labourers  were 
tJiereby  violated  and  broken.  Now  (sais  my  Lord  Coke)  all  the 
Statutes  concerning  Labourers,  before  this  Act,  and  where- 
unto  this  Act  doth  refer,  are  repeal'd  by  the  Statute  of  5  Eliz. 
Cap.  4.  whereby  the  Cause  and  End  of  making  this  Act  is  taken 
away ;  and  consequently  this  Act  is  become  of  no  Force  or 
Effect;  for,  cessante  ratione  Legis,  cessat  ipsa  Lex:  And  the  In- 
dictment of  Felony  upon  this  Statute  must  contain,  that  those 
Chapters  and  Congregations  were  to  the  violating  and  breaking 
of  the  good  Course  and  Effect  of  the  Statutes  of  Labourers ,  which 
now  cannot  be  so  aUeg'd,  because  these  Statutes  be  repealed. 
Therefore  this  would  be  put  out  of  the  Charge  of  Justices  of 
Peace,  written  by  Master  Lambert,  pag.  227. 

This  Quotation  confirms  the  Tradition  of  old  Masons,  that 
this  most  learned  Judge  really  belong'd  to  the  ancient  Lodge, 
and  was  a  faithful  Brother. 


Compiled  first  by  Mr.  George   Payne, 

Anno  1720,  when  he  was  ffiranlr^iHaster,  and 
approved  by  the  Grand-Lodge  on  St.  John  BaptisVs 
Day,  Anno  1*121,  at  Stationer' s-Hall,  London; 
when  the  most  noble  Prince  John  Duke  of 
Montagu  was  unanimously  chosen  our 
®?ranlr ^piaster  for  the  Year  ensuing;  who  chose 
John  Beal,  M.  D.,  his  Deputy  Grand-^Iaster  ; 
,  (  Mr.  Josiah  Villeneau  \  were  chosen  by  the 
^  I  ^ir.  Thomas  Morris,  jun.  )  Lodge  Grand-Wardens. 
And  now,  by  the  Command  of  our  said  Bight  Wor- 
shipful Grand-Master  Montagu,  the  Author  of  this 
Book  has  compared  them  with,  and  reduc'd  them  to 
the  ancient  Records  and  immemorial  Usages  of  the 
Fraternity,  and  digested  them  into  this  new  Method, 
with  several  proper  Explications,  for  the  Use  of  the 
Lodges  in  and  about  London  and  Westminster. 

L 

HE  GRAND  MASTER,  or  his  Beputy,  hath 
Authority  and  Right,  not  only  to  be  present 
in  any  true  Lodge,  but  also  to  preside 
wherever  he  is,  with  the  Master  of  the 
Lodge  on  his  Left-hand,  and  to  order  his 
Grand  Wardens  to  attend  him,  who  are  not  to  act  in 
particular  Lodges  as  Wardens,  but  in  his  Presence, 
and  at  his  Command ;  because  there  the  Grand  Master 
may  command  the  Wardens  of  that  Lodge,  or  any 
other  Brethren  he  pleaseth,  to  attend  and  act  as  his 
Wardens  pro  tempore. 


GENERAL  REGULATIONS.  65 

IT.  The  Master  of  a  particular  Lodge  has  the  Right  and 
Authority  of  congregating  the  Members  of  his  Lodge  into  a 
Chapter  at  pleasure,  upon  any  Emergency  or  Occurrence,  as 
well  as  to  appoint  the  time  and  place  of  their  usual  forming ; 
And  in  case  of  Sickness,  Death,  or  necessary  Absence  of  the 
Master,  the  Senior  "Warden  shall  act  as  Master  j/ro  tempore,  if 
no  Brother  is  present  who  has  been  Master  of  that  Lodge 
before ;  for  in  that  Case  the  Absent  Master's  Authority  re- 
verts to  the  last  Master  then  present ;  though  he  cannot  act 
until  the  said  Senior  Warden  has  once  congregated  the  Lodge, 
or  in  his  Absence  the  Junior  Warden. 

III.  The  Master  of  each  particular  Lodge,  or  one  of  the 
Wardens,  or  some  other  Brother  by  his  Order,  shall  keep  a 
Book  containing  their  By-Laws,  the  Names  of  their  Members, 
with  a  List  of  all  the  Lodges  in  Town,  and  the  usual  Times 
and  Places  of  their  forming,  and  all  their  Transactions  that 
are  proper  to  be  written. 

lY.  No  Lodge  shall  make  more  than  Five  New  Brethren  at 
one  Time,  nor  any  Man  under  the  Age  of  Twenty-five,  who 
must  be  also  his  own  Master  ;  unless  by  a  Dispensation  from 
the  Grand-Master  or  his  Deputy. 

V.  No  Man  can  be  made  or  admitted  a  Member  of  a  par- 
ticular Lodge,  without  previous  notice  one  Month  before 
given  to  the  said  Lodge,  in  order  to  make  due  Enquiry  into 
the  Reputation  and  Capacity  of  the  Candidate  ;  unless  by  the 
Dispensation  aforesaid. 

VI.  But  no  Man  can  be  entered  a  Brother  in  any  particular 
Lodge,  or  admitted  to  be  a  Member  thereof,  without  the 
unanimous  Consent  of  all  the  Members  of  that  Lodge  then 
present  when  the  Candidate  is  propos'd,  and  their  Consent  is 
formally  ask'd  by  the  Master ;  and  they  are  to  signify  their 
Consent  or  Dissent  in  their  own  prudent  way,  either  virtually 
or  in  form,  but  with  Unanimity:  Nor  is  this  inherent  Privi 
lege  subject  to  a  Dispensation ;  because  the  Members  of  a 


66  GENERAL  REGULATIONS. 

particular  Lodge  are  the  best  judges  of  it ;  and  if  a  fractious 
Member  should  be  imposed  on  them,  it  might  spoil  their  Har- 
mony, or  hinder  their  Freedom ;  or  even  break  or  disperse 
the  Lodge  ;  which  ought  to  be  avoided  by  all  good  and  true 
Brethren. 

VII.  Every  new  Brotlier  at  his  making  is  decently  to  cloath 
the  Lodge,  that  is,  all  the  Brethren  present,  and  to  deposite 
something  for  the  Relief  of  indigent  and  decay'd  Brethren,  as 
the  Candidate  shall  think  fit  to  bestow,  over  and  above  the 
small  Allowance  stated  by  the  By-Laws  of  that  particular 
Lodge;  which  Charity  shall  be  lodged  with  the  Master  or 
Wardens,  or  the  Cashier,  if  the  Members  think  fit  to  chuse  one. 

And  the  Candidate  shall  also  solemnly  promise  to  submit  to 
the  Constitutions,  the  Charges,  and  Regulations,  and  to  such 
other  good  Usages  as  shall  be  intimated  to  them  in  Time  and 
Place  convenient. 

Vni.  No  Set  or  Number  of  Brethren  shall  withdraw  or 
separate  themselves  from  the  Lodge  in  which  they  were  made 
Brethren,  or  were  afterwards  admitted  Members,  unless  the 
Lodge  becomes  too  numerous ;  nor  even  then,  without  a  Dis- 
pensation from  the  Grand-Master  or  his  Deputy :  And  when 
they  are  thus  separated,  they  must  either  immediately  join 
themselves  to  such  other  Lodge  as  they  shall  like  best,  with  the 
unanimous  Consent  of  that  other  Lodge  to  which  they  go,  (as 
above  regulated,)  or  else  they  must  obtain  the  Grand  Master's 
Warrant  to  join  in  forming  a  new  Lodge. 

If  any  Set  or  Number  of  Masons  shall  take  upon  themselves 
to  form  a  Lodge  without  the  Grand-Master's  Warrant,  the 
regular  Lodges  are  not  to  countenance  them,  nor  own  them 
as  fair  Brethren  and  duly  form'd,  nor  approve  of  their  Acts 
and  Deeds ;  but  must  treat  them  as  Rebels,  until  they  humble 
themselves,  as  the  Grand-Master  shall  in  his  Prudence  direct, 
and  until  he  approve  of  them  by  his  Warrant,  which  must  be 
signify'd  to  the  other  Lodges,  as  the  Custom  is  when  a  new 
Lodge  is  to  be  registcr'd  in  the  List  of  Lodges. 


GENERAL    REGULATIONS.  67 

IX.  But  if  any  Brollier  so  far  misbcliave  himself  as  to  ren- 
der his  Lodge  uneasy,  he  shall  be  twice  duly  admonish'd  by 
the  Master  or  Wardens  in  a  form'd  Lodge ;  and  if  he  will  not 
refrain  his  Imprudence,  and  obediently  submit  to  the  Advice 
of  the  Brethren,  and  reform  what  gives  them  Offence,  he  shall 
be  dealt  with  according  to  the  By-Laws  of  that  particular 
Lodge,  or  else  in  such  a  manner  as  the  Quarterly  Communica- 
tion shall  in  their  great  Prudence  think  fit;  for  which  a  New 
Regulation  may  be  afterwards  made. 

X.  The  Majority  of  every  particular  Lodge,  when  congre- 
gated, shall  have  the  privilege  of  giving  Instructions  to  their 
Master  and  Wardens,  before  the  assembling  of  the  Grand 
Chapter,  or  Lodge,  at  the  three  Quarterly  Communications 
hereafter  mention'd,  and  of  the  Annual  Grand  Lodge  too ;  be- 
cause their  Masters  and  Wardens  are  their  Representatives, 
and  are  suppos'd  to  speak  their  Mind. 

XL  All  particular  Lodges  are  to  observe  the  same  Usages 
as  much  as  possible ;  in  order  to  which,  and  for  cultivating  a 
good  Understanding  among  Free-Masons,  some  Members  out 
of  every  Lodge  shall  be  deputed  to  visit  the  other  Lodges  as 
often  as  shall  be  thought  convenient. 

XXL  The  Grand  Lodge  consists  of,  and  is  form'd  by  the 
Masters  and  Wardens  of  all  the  regular  particular  Lodges 
upon  Record,  with  the  Grand  Master  at  their  Head,  and  liis 
Deputy  on  his  Left  hand,  and  the  Grand- Wardens  in  their 
proper  Places,  and  must  have  a  Quarterly  Communication 
about  Michaelmas,  Christmas,  and  Lady-Day,  in  some  conve- 
nient Place,  as  the  Grand-Master  shall  appoint,  where  no 
Brother  shall  be  present  who  is  not  at  that  time  a  Member 
thereof,  without  a  Dispensation ;  and  while  he  stays,  he  shall 
not  be  allow'd  to  vote,  nor  even  give  his  Opinion,  without 
Leave  of  the  Grand  Lodge  ask'd  and  given,  or  unless  it  be 
duly  ask'd  by  the  said  Lodge. 

All  Matters  are  to  be  determin'd  in  the  Grand-Lodge  by  a 


68  GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 

Majority  of  Votes,  each  Member  having  one  Vote,  and  the 
Grand-Master  having  two  Votes,  unless  the  said  Lodge  leave 
any  iDarticular  thing  to  the  Determination  of  the  Grand- 
Master  for  the  sake  of  Expedition. 

XIII.  At  the  said  Quarterly  Communication,  all  Matters 
that  concern  the  Fraternity  in  general,  or  particular  Lodges, 
or  single  Brethren,  are  quietly,  sedately,  and  maturely  to  be 
discours'd  of  and  transacted:  Apprentices  must  be  admitted 
Masters  and  Fellow-Craft  only  here,  unless  by  a  Dispensation. 
Here  also  all  Differences  that  cannot  be  made  up  and  accom- 
modated privately,  nor  by  a  particular  Lodge,  are  to  be  seri- 
ously considered  and  decided :  And  if  any  Brother  thhiks 
himself  aggriev'd  by  the  Decision  of  this  Board,  he  may  ap- 
peal to  the  Annual  Grand-Lodge  next  ensuing,  and  leave  his 
Appeal  in  Writing,  with  the  Grand-Master,  or  his  Deputy, 
or  the  Grand-Wardens. 

Here  also  the  Master  or  the  Wardens  of  each  particular 
Lodge  shall  bring  and  produce  a  List  of  such  Members  as 
have  been  made,  or  even  admitted  in  their  particular  Lodges 
since  the  last  Communication  of  the  Grand-Lodge:  And 
there  shall  be  a  Book  kept  by  the  Grand-Master,  or  his 
Deputy,  or  rather  by  some  Brother  whom  the  Grand-Lodge 
shall  appoint  for  Secretary,  wherein  shall  be  recorded  all  the 
Lodges,  with  their  usual  Times  and  Places  of  forming,  and 
the  Names  of  all  the  JVIembers  of  each  Lodge ;  and  all  the 
Affairs  of  the  Grand-Lodge  that  are  projjer  to  be  -written. 

They  shall  also  consider  of  the  most  prudent  and  effectual 
methods  of  collecting  and  disposing  of  what  Money  shall  bo 
given  to,  or  lodged  with  them  in  Charity,  towards  the  Relief 
only  of  any  true  Brother  fallen  into  Poverty  or  Decay,  but  of 
none  else :  But  every  particular  Lodge  shall  dispose  of  their 
own  Charity  for  poor  Brethren,  according  to  their  own  By 
Laws,  until  it  be  agreed  by  all  the  Lodges  (in  a  new  Regula 
tion)  to  carry  in  tlie  Charity  collected  by  them  to  the  Grand 
Lodge,  at  the  Quarterly  or  Annual  Communication,  in  order  to 


GENERAL    REGULATIONS.  69 

make  a  common  Stock  of  it,  for  the  more  handsome  Relief  of 
poor  Brethren. 

They  shall  also  appoint  a  Treasurer,  a  Brother  of  good 
worldly  substance,  who  shall  be  a  Member  of  the  Grand- 
Lodge  by  virtue  of  his  Office,  and  shall  be  alwaj^s  present, 
and  have  power  to  move  to  the  Grand-Lodge  any  thing, 
especially  what  concerns  his  Office.  To  him  shall  be  commit- 
ted all  Money  rais'd  for  Charity,  or  for  any  other  Use  of  the 
Grand-Lodge,  which  he  shall  write  down  in  a  Book,  with  the 
respective  Ends  and  Uses  for  which  the  several  Sums  are 
intended ;  and  shall  expend  and  disburse  the  same  by  such  a 
certain  Order,  sign'd,  as  the  Grand-Lodge  shall  afterwards 
agree  to  in  a  new  Regulation:  But  he  shall  not  vote  in 
chusing  a  Grand-Master  or  Wardens,  though  in  every  other 
Transaction.  As  in  like  manner  the  Secretary  shall  be  a 
Member  of  the  Grand-Lodge  by  virtue  of  his  Office,  and  vote 
in  every  thing  except  in  chushig  a  Grand-Master  or  Wardens. 

The  Treasurer  and  Secretary  shall  have  each  a  Clerk,  who 
must  be  a  Brother  and  Fellow-Craft,  but  never  must  be  a 
Member  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  nor  speak  without  being  allow'd 
or  desir'd. 

The  Grand-Master,  or  his  Deputy,  shall  always  command 
the  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  with  their  -Clerks  and  Books,  in 
order  to  see  how  Matters  go  on,  and  to  know  what  is  expe- 
dient to  be  done  upon  any  emergent  Occasion. 

Another  Brother  (who  must  be  a  Fellow-Craft)  should  be 
appointed  to  look  after  the  Door  of  the  Grand-Lodge;  but 
shall  be  no  Member  of  it. 

But  these  Offices  may  be  farther  explain'd  by  a  new  Reg- 
ulation, when  the  Necessity  and  Expediency  of  them  may 
more  appear  than  at  present  to  the  Fraternity. 

XIV.  If  at  any  Grand-Lodge,  stated  or  occasional,  quar- 
terly or  annual,  the  Grand-Master  and  his  Deputy  should  be 
both  absent,  then  the  present  Master  of  a  Lodge,  that  has 


70  GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 

been  the  longest  a  Free-Mason,  shall  take  the  Chair,  and  pre- 
side as  Grand-Master  pro  tempore,  and  shall  be  vested  with 
all  his  Power  and  Honour  for  the  time ;  provided  there  is  no 
Brother  present  that  has  been  Grand-Master  formerly,  or 
Deputy  Grand-Master;  for  the  last  Grand-Master  present, 
or  else  the  last  Deputy  present,  should  always  of  right  take 
place  in  the  absence  of  the  present  Grand-Master  and  his 
Deputy. 

XV.  In  the  Grand-Lodge  none  can  act  as  Wardens  but  the 
Grand- Wardens  themselves,  if  present;  and  if  absent,  the 
Grand-Master,  or  the  Person  who  presides  in  his  Place,  shall 
order  private  Wardens  to  act  as  Grand-Wardens  pro  tempore, 
whose  Places  are  to  be  supply'd  by  two  Fellow-Craft  of  the 
same  Lodge,  call'd  forth  to  act,  or  sent  thither  by  the  par- 
ticular Master  thereof;  or  if  by  him  omitted,  then  they  shall 
be  call'd  by  the  Grand-Master,  that  so  the  Grand-Lodge  may 
be  always  compleat. 

XVI.  The  Grand  Wardens,  or  any  others,  are  first  to  advise 
with  the  Deputy  about  the  Affairs  of  the  Lodge  or  of  the  Breth- 
ren, and  not  to  apply  to  the  Grand-Master  without  the  Knowl- 
edge of  the  Deputy,  unless  he  refuse  his  concurrence  in  any 
certain  necessary  Affair ;  in  which  Case,  or  in  case  of  any  Dif- 
ference between  the  Deputy  and  the  Grand  Wardens,  or 
other  Brethren,  both  parties  are  to  go  by  Concert  to  the 
Grand-Master,  who  can  easily  decide  the  Controversy  and 
make  up  the  difference  by  virtue  of  his  great  Authority. 

The  Grand-Master  should  receive  no  Intimation  of  Business 
concerning  Masonry,  but  from  his  Deputy  first,  except  in  such 
certain  Cases  as  his  Worship  can  well  judge  of;  for  if  the 
Application  to  the  Grand-Master  be  irregular,  he  can  easily 
order  the  Grand-Wardens,  or  any  other  Brethren  thus  apply- 
ing, to  wait  upon  his  Deputy,  who  is  to  prepare  the  Business 
speedily,  and  to  lay  it  orderly  before  his  Worship. 

XVn.  No  Grand-Master,  Deputy  Grand-j\faster,  Grand 
Wardens,  Treasurer,  Secretary,  or  whoever  acts  for  them,  or 


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in  their  stead  pro  tempore,  can  at  the  same  time  be  the  Mas- 
ter or  Warden  of  a  particular  Lodge ;  but  as  soon  as  any  of 
them  has  honourably  discharg'd  his  Grand  OflBce,  he  returns 
to  that  Post  or  Station  in  his  particular  Lodge,  fi'om  which 
he  was  call'd  to  officiate  above. 

XVIIL  If  the  Deputy  Grand-Master  be  sick,  or  necessarily 
absent,  the  Grand-Master  may  chuso  any  Fellow-Craft  he 
please  to  be  his  Deputy  pro  tempore :  But  he  that  is  chusen 
Deputy  at  the  Grand-Lodge,  and  the  Grand-Wardens  too, 
cannot  be  discharg'd  without  the  Cause  fairly  appear  to  the 
Majority  of  the  Grand-Lodge ;  and  the  Grand-Master,  if  he 
is  uneasy,  may  call  a  Grand-Lodge  on  purpose  to  lay  tho 
Cause  before  them,  and  to  have  their  Advice  and  Concurrence  : 
In  which  case,  the  Majority  of  the  Grand-Lodge,  if  they  can- 
not reconcile  the  Master  and  his  Deputy  or  his  Wardens,  are 
to  concur  in  allowing  the  Master  to  discharge  his  said 
Deputy  or  his  said  Wardens,  and  to  chuse  another  Deputy 
immediately ;  and  the  said  Grand-Lodge  shall  chuse  other  War- 
dens in  that  Case,  that  Harmony  and  Peace  may  be  preserved. 

XIX.  If  the  Grand-Master  should  abuse  his  Power,  and 
render  himself  unworthy  of  the  Obedience  and  Subjection  of 
the  Lodges,  he  shall  be  treated  in  a  way  and  manner  to  be 
agreed  upon  in  a  new  Regulation ;  because  hitherto  the  an- 
cient Fraternity  have  had  no  occasion  for  it,  their  former 
Grand-Masters  having  all  behaved  themselves  worthy  of  that 
honourable  Office. 

XX.  The  Grand-Master,  with  his  Deputy  and  Wardens, 
shall  (at  least  once)  go  round  and  visit  aU  the  Lodges  about 
ToAvn  during  his  Mastership. 

XXI.  If  the  Grand-Master  die  during  his  Mastership,  o** 
by  Sickness,  or  by  being  beyond  Sea,  or  any  other  way  should 
be  render'd  uncapable  of  discharging  his  Office,  the  Deputy, 
or,  in  his  Absence,  the  Senior  Grand-Warden,  or,  in  his  Ab- 
sence, the  Junior,  or,  in  his  Absence,  any  three  present  Mas- 


72  GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 

ters  of  Lodges,  shall  join  to  congregate  the  Grand-Lodge 
immediately,  to  advise  together  upon  that  Emergency,  and 
to  send  two  of  their  number  to  invite  the  laM  Grand-Master 
to  resume  his  Office,  which  now  in  course  reverts  to  him ;  or, 
if  he  refuse,  then  the  next  last,  and  so  backward.  But  if  no 
former  Grand-Master  can  be  found,  then  the  Deputy  shall  act 
as  Principal  until  another  is  chosen;  or,  if  there  be  no  Depu- 
ty, then  the  oldest  Master. 

XXn.  The  Brethren  of  all  the  Lodges  in  and  about  Lon- 
don and  Westminster  shall  meet  at  an  Annual  Communication 
and  Fead,  in  some  convenient  place,  on  St.  John  Baptist's  Day, 
or  else  on  St.  John  Evangelist's  Day,  as  the  Grand-Lodge  shall 
think  fit  by  a  new  Regulation,  having  of  late  Years  met  on  SL 
John  Baptist's  Day :  Provided, 

The  Majority  of  the  Masters  and  Wardens,  with  the  Grand- 
Master,  his  Deputy  and  Wardens,  agree  at  their  QuarterJy 
Communications,  three  Months  before,  that  there  shall  be  a 
Feast,  and  a  General  Communication  of  all  the  Brethren :  For 
if  either  the  Grand-Master,  or  the  Majority  of  the  particular 
Masters,  are  against  it,  it  must  be  dropt  for  that  time. 

But  whether  there  shall  be  a  Feast  for  all  the  Brethren,  or 
not,  yet  the  Grand-Lodge  must  meet  in  some  convenient 
place  annually  on  St.  John's  Day ;  or,  if  it  be  Sunday,  then  on 
the  next  Day,  in  order  to  chuse  every  Year  a  new  Grand- 
Master,  Deputy,  and  Wardens. 

XXIII.  If  it  be  thought  expedient,  and  the  Grand-Master, 
with  the  Majority  of  the  Masters  and  Wardens,  agree  to  hold 
a  Grand  Feast,  according  to  the  ancient  laudable  Custom  of 
Masons,  then  the  Grand- Wardens  shall  have  the  care  of  pre- 
paring the  Tickets,  seal'd  with  the  Grand-Master's  Seal,  of 
disposing  of  tlie  Tickets,  of  receiving  the  Money  for  the 
Tickets,  of  buying  the  Materials  of  the  Feast,  of  finding  out 
a  proper  and  convenient  j)lace  to  feast  in,  and  of  every  other 
thing  that  concerns  the  Entertainment 


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But,  that  the  Work  may  not  be  too  burtheiisome  to  the  two 
Grand-Wardens,  and  that  all  Matters  may  be  expeditiously 
and  safely  managed,  the  Grand-Master,  or  his  Deputy,  shall 
have  power  to  nominate  and  appoint  a  certain  number  of 
Stewards,  as  his  Worship  shall  think  fit,  to  act  in  concert 
with  the  two  Grand-Wardens ;  all  things  relating  to  the  Feast 
being  decided  amongst  them  by  a  Majority  of  Voices,  except 
the  Grand-Master  or  his  Deputy  interpose  by  a  particular 
Direction  or  Appointment. 

XXIV.  The  Wardens  and  Stewards  shall,  in  due  time,  wait 
upon  the  Grand-Master,  or  his  Deputy,  for  Directions  and 
Orders  about  the  premisses;  but  if  his  Worship  and  his 
Deputy  are  sick,  or  necessarily  absent,  they  shall  call  together 
the  Masters  and  Wardens  of  Lodges  to  meet  on  purpose  for 
their  Advice  and  Orders ;  or  else  they  may  take  the  Matter 
wholly  upon  themselves,  and  do  the  best  they  can. 

The  Grand-Wardens  and  the  Stewards  are  to  account  for 
all  the  Money  they  receive,  or  expend,  to  the  Grand-Lodge, 
after  Dinner,  or  when  the  Grand-Lodge  shall  think  fit  to 
receive  their  Accounts. 

If  the  Grand-Master  pleases,  he  may  in  due  time  summon 
all  the  Masters  and  Wardens  of  Lodges,  to  consult  with  them 
about  ordering  the  Grand  Feast,  and  about  any  Emergency 
or  accidental  thing  relating  thereunto,  that  may  require  Ad- 
vice ;  or  else  to  take  it  upon  himself  altogether. 

XXV.  The  Masters  of  Lodges  shall  each  appoint  one  expe- 
rienced and  discreet  Fellow-Craft  of  his  Lodge,  to  comjiose  a 
Committee,  consisting  of  one  from  every  Lodge,  who  shall 
meet  to  receive-,  in  a  convenient  Apartment,  every  Person 
that  brings  a  Ticket,  and  shall  have  Power  to  discourse  him, 
if  they  think  fit,  in  order  to  admit  him,  or  debar  him,  as  they 
shall  see  cause :  Provided  they  send  no  ^lan  away  before  they 
have  acquainted  all  the  Brethren  within  Doors  with  the  Rea- 
sons thereof,  to  avoid  Mistakes ;  that  so  no  true  Brother  may 

4 


74  GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 

be  debarr'd,  nor  a  false  Brother,  or  mere  Pretender,  admitted. 
This  Committee  must  meet  very  early  on  St.  John's  Day  at  tlic 
place,  even  before  any  Persons  come  with  Tickets. 

XXVI.  The  Grand-Master  shall  appoint  two  or  more  trusty 
Brethren  to  be  Porters,  or  Door-keepers,  who  are  also  to  be 
early  at  the  Place,  for  some  good  Reasons ;  and  who  are  to  be 
at  the  Command  of  the  Committee. 

XXV II.  The  Grand-Wardens,  or  the  Stewards,  shall  ap- 
point beforehand  such  a  Number  of  Brethren  to  serve  at  Table 
as  they  think  fit  and  proper  for  that  Work ;  and  they  may 
advise  with  the  Masters  and  Wardens  of  Lodges  about  the 
most  proper  Persons,  if  they  please,  or  may  take  in  such  by 
their  Recommendation ;  for  none  are  to  serve  that  Day  but 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  that  the  Communication  may  be 
free  and  harmonious. 

XXVin.  All  the  Members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  must  be  at 
the  Place  long  before  Dinner,  with  the  Grand-Master,  or  his 
Deputy,  at  their  Head,  Avho  shall  retire,  and  form  themselves. 
And  this  is  done  in  order, 

1.  To  receive  any  Appeals  duly  lodg'd,  as  above  regulated, 
that  the  Appellant  may  be  heard,  and  the  Affair  may  be 
amicably  decided  before  Dinner,  if  possible ;  but  if  it  cannot, 
it  must  be  delay'd  till  after  the  new  Grand-Master  is  elected ; 
and  if  it  cannot  be  decided  after  Dinner,  it  may  be  delay'd,  and 
referred  to  a  particular  Committee,  that  shall  quietly  adjust 
it,  and  make  Report  to  the  next  Quarterly  Communication, 
that  Brotherly-Love  may  be  preserv'd. 

2.  To  prevent  any  Difference  or  Disgust  which  may  be 
feared  to  arise  that  Day ;  that  no  Interruption  may  be  given 
to  the  Harmony  and  Pleasure  of  the  Grand  Feast. 

3.  To  consult  about  whatever  concerns  the  Decency  and 
Decorum  of  the  Grand  Assembly,  and  to  prevent  all  Inde- 
cency and  ill  Planners,  the  Assembly  being  promiscuous. 


GENERAL    REGULATIONS.  75 

4.  To  receive  and  consider  of  any  good  Motion,  or  any 
momentous  and  Important  Affair,  that  sliall  be  brought  from 
the  particular  Lodges,  by  their  Representatives,  the  several 
Masters  and  Wardens. 

XXIX.  After  these  things  are  discuss'd,  the  Grand-Master 
and  his  Deputy,  the  Grand-Wardens,  or  the  Stewards,  the 
Secretary,  the  Treasurer,  the  Clerks,  and  every  other  Person 
shall  withdraw,  and  leave  the  Masters  and  Wardens  of  the 
particular  Lodges  alone,  in  order  to  consult  amicably  about 
electing  a  new  Grand-Master,  or  continuing  the  present,  if 
they  have  not  done  it  the  Day  before ;  and  if  thej  are  unani- 
mous for  continuing  the  present  Grand-Master,  his  Worship 
shall  be  call'd  in,  and  humbly  desir'd  to  do  the  Fraternity  the 
Honour  of  ruling  them  for  the  year  ensuing :  And  after  Din- 
ner it  will  be  known  whether  he  accepts  of  it  or  not :  For  it 
should  not  be  discover'd  but  by  the  Election  itself. 

XXX.  Then  the  Masters  and  Wardens,  and  all  the  Breth- 
ren, may  converse  promiscuously,  or  as  they  please  to  sort 
together,  until  the  Dinner  is  coming  in,  when  every  Brother 
takes  his  Seat  at  Table. 

XXXI.  Some  time  after  Dinner,  the  Grand-Lodge  is  form'd, 
not  in  the  Retirement,  but  in  the  Presence  of  aU  the  Breth- 
ren, who  yet  are  not  Members  of  it,  and  must  not  therefore 
speak  until  they  are  desir'd  and  allow'd. 

XXXII.  If  the  Grand-Master  of  last  Year  has  consented 
with  the  Master  and  Wardens  in  private,  before  Dinner,  to 
continue  for  the  year  ensuing ;  then  one  of  the  Grand-Lodge, 
deputed  for  that  purpose,  shall  represent  to  all  the  Brethren 
his  Worship's  good  Government,  &c.  And,  turning  to  him, 
shall,  in  the  name  of  the  Grand-Lodge,  humbly  request  him  to 
do  the  Fraternity  the  great  Honour,  (if  nobly  born,  if  not,)  the 
great  Kindness  of  continuing  to  be  their  Grand-Master  for  the 
Year  ensuing.  And  his  Worship  declaring  his  Consent  by 
a  Bow  or  a  Speech,  as  he  pleases,  the  said  deputed  Member 


76  GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 

of  the  Grand-Lodge  shall  proclaim  him  Grand-Master,  and  all 
the  Members  of  the  Lodge  shall  salute  him  in  due  Form. 
And  all  the  Brethren  shall  for  a  few  Minutes  have  leave  to 
declare  their  Satisfaction,  Pleasure,  and  Congratulation. 

XXXin.  But  if  either  the  Master  and  Wardens  have  not 
in  private,  this  Day  before  Dinner,  nor  the  Day  before,  desir'd 
the  lad  Grand-Master  to  continue  in  the  Mastership  another 
Year ;  or,  if  he,  when  desired,  has  not  consented :  Then, 

The  last  Grand-Master  shall  nominate  his  successor  for  the 
Year  ensuing,  who,  if  unanimously  approved  by  the  Grand- 
Lodge,  and  if  there  present,  shall  be  proclaim'd,  saluted,  and 
congratulated  the  new  Grand-Master  as  above  hinted,  and 
immediately  install'd  by  the  last  Grand-Master,  according  to 
Usage. 

XXXIY.  But  if  that  Nomination  is  not  unanimously  ap- 
prov'd,  the  new  Grand-Master  shall  be  chosen  immediately 
by  Ballot,  every  Master  and  Warden  writing  his  Man's  Name, 
and  the  last  Grand-Master  writing  his  Man's  name  too ;  and 
the  Man  whose  Name  the  last  Grand-Master  shall  first  take 
out,  casually  or  by  chance,  shall  be  Grand-Master  for  the 
Year  ensuing ;  and,  if  present,  he  shall  be  proclaim'd,  saluted, 
and  congratulated,  as  above  hinted,  and  forthwith  install'd 
by  the  last  Grand-Master,  according  to  Usage. 

XXXY.  The  last  Grand-Master  thus  continued,  or  the  new 
Grand-Master  thus  install'd,  shall  next  nominate  and  appoint 
his  Deputy  Grand-Master,  either  the  last  or  a  new  one,  who 
shall  be  also  declar'd,  saluted  and  congratulated  as  above 
hinted. 

The  Grand-Master  shall  also  nominate  the  new  Grand- 
Wardens,  and,  if  unanimously  approv'd  by  the  Grand-Lodge, 
shall  be  declared,  saluted,  and  congratulated,  as  above  hinted ; 
but  if  not,  they  shall  be  chosen  by  Ballot,  in  the  same  way  as 
the  Grand-Master:    As  the  Wardens  of  private  Lodges  are 


GENERAL   REGULATIONS.  77 

also  to  be  chosen  by  Ballot  in  each  Lodge,  if  the  Members 
thereof  do  not  agree  to  their  Master's  Nomination. 

XXXVI.  But  if  the  Brother,  whom  the  present  Grand-Mas- 
ter shall  nominate  for  his  Successor,  or  whom  the  Majority 
of  the  Grand-Lodge  shall  happen  to  chuse  by  Ballot,  is,  by 
Sickness  or  other  necessary  Occasion,  absent  from  the  Grand- 
Feast,  he  cannot  be  proclaim'd  the  new  Grand-Master,  unless 
the  old  Grand-Master,  or  some  of  the  Masters  and  Wardens 
of  the  Grand-Lodge  can  vouch,  upon  the  Honour  of  a  Brother, 
that  the  said  Person,  so  nominated  or  chosen,  will  readily 
accept  of  the  said  Office ;  in  which  case  the  old  Gkand-Mas- 
TER  shall  act  as  Proxy,  and  shall  nominate  the  Deputj''  and 
Wardens  in  his  Name,  and  in  his  Name  also  receive  the  usual 
Honours,  Homage,  and  Congratulation. 

XXXVn,  Then  the  Grand-Master  shall  allow  any  Brother, 
Fellow-Craft,  or  Apprentice  to  speak,  directing  his  Discourse 
to  his  Worship ;  or  to  make  any  Motion  for  the  good  of  the 
Fraternity,  which  shall  be  either  immediately  consider'd  and 
finish'd,  or  else  referr'd  to  the  Consideration  of  the  Grand- 
Lodge  at  their  next  Communication,  stated  or  occasional. 
When  that  is  over, 

XXXVHI.  The  Grand-Master  or  his  Deputy,  or  somo 
Brother  appointed  by  him,  shall  harangue  all  the  Brethren, 
and  give  them  good  Advice :  And  lastly,  after  some  other 
Transactions,  that  cannot  be  written  in  any  Language,  the 
Brethren  may  go  away  or  stay  longer,  as  they  please. 

XXXIX.  Every  Animal  Grand-Lodge  has  an  inherent  Power 
and  Authority  to  make  new  Pegulations,  or  to  alter  these,  for 
the  real  benefit  of  this  ancient  Fraternity :  Provided  always 
that  the  old  Land-Marks  be  carefully  preserv'd,  and  that  such 
Alterations  and  new  Regulations  be  proposed  and  agreed  to 
at  the  third  Quarterly  Communication  preceding  the  Annual 
Grand  Feast ;  and  that  they  be  offered  also  to  the  Perusal  of 
all  the  Brethren  before  Dinner,  in  wi-iting,  even  of  the  young- 


78  GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 

est  Apprentice ;  the  Approbation  and  Consent  of  the  Major- 
ity of  all  the  Brethren  present  being  absolutely  necessary  to 
make  the  same  binding  and  obligatory;  which  must,  after 
Dinner,  and  after  the  new  Grand-Master  is  install'd,  be  sol- 
emnly desir'd ;  as  it  was  desir'd  and  obtain'd  for  these  Reg- 
ulations, when  propos'd  by  the  Grand-Lodge,  to  about  150 
Brethren,  on  St.  John  Baptist's  Day,  1721. 


POSTSCRIPT. 

Here  follows  the  Manner  of  constituting  a  Ncto  aotrgr, 
as  practis'd  by  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Wharton,  the 
present  Right  Worshipful  €Jranlr^i*lastcr,  according- 
to  the  ancient  Usages  of  Masons 

Xeto  JLotrgc,  for  avoiding  many  Irregularities, 
should  be  solemnly  constituted  by  the  Grand-Mas- 
ter, with  his  Deputy  and  Wardens ;  or,  in  the  Grand- 
Master's  Absence,  the  Deputy  shall  act  for  his  Wor- 
ship, and  shall  chuse  some  Master  of  a  Lodge  to 
assist  him ;  or,  in  case  the  Deputy  is  absent,  the 
Grand-Master  shall  call  forth  some  Master  of  a 
Lodge  to  act  as  Deputy  pro  tempore. 

The  Candidates,  or  the  new  Master  and  Wardens,  being 
yet  among  the  Fellow-Craft,  the  Grand-Master  shall  ask  his 
Deputy  if  he  has  examin'd  them,  and  finds  the  Candidate  Mas- 
ter well  skill'd  in  the  noble  Science  and  the  royal  Art,  and  duly 
instructed  in  our  Mysteries,  &c. 

And  the  Deputy  answering  in  the  affirmative,  he  shall  (by 
the  Grand-^faster's  order)  take  the  Candidate  from  among  his 
Fellows,  and  present  him  to  the  Grand-Master;  saying,  Right 


GENERAL  REGULATIONS.  79 

Worshipful  Grand-Master:  The  Brethren  here  desire  to  be  form' d 
into  a  new  Lodge;  and  I  present  this  my  worthy  Brother  to  he 
their  Master,  whom  I  know  to  be  of  gcod  Morals  and  great  Skill, 
true  and  trusty,  and  a  Lover  of  the  whole  Frateri'HTY,  wheresoever 
dispersed  over  the  face  of  the  Earth. 

Then  the  Grand-Master,  placing  the  Candidate  on  his  Left 
Hand,  having  ask'd  and  obtain'd  the  unanimous  Consent  of 
all  the  Brethren,  shall  say:  I  constitute  and  form  these  good 
Brethren  into  a  new  Lodge,  and  appoint  you  tlie  Master  of  it, 
not  doubtirig  of  your  Capacity  and  Care  to  preserve  the  Ceme.vt 
of  the  Lodge,  &c.,  with  some  other  Expressions  that  are  proper 
and  usual  on  that  Occasion,  but  not  proper  to  be  written. 

Upon  this,  the  Deputy  s"hall  rehearse  the  Charges  of  a  Mas- 
ter, and  the  Grand-Master  shall  ask  the  Candidate,  saying,  Do 
you  submit  to  these  Charges,  as  Masters  Jiave  done  in  all  Ages  ? 
And  the  Candidate  signifying  his  cordial  Submission  thereun- 
to, the  Graxd-Master  shall,  by  certain  significant  Ceremonies 
and  ancient  Usages,  install  him,  and  present  him  with  the 
Constitutions,  the  Lodge-Book,  and  the  Instruments  of  his 
Office — not  altogether,  but  one  after  another ;  and  after  each 
of  them,  the  Grand-Master,  or  his  Deputy,  shall  rehearse  the 
short  and  pithy  Charge  that  is  suitable  to  the  thing  presented. 

After  this,  the  Members  of  this  new  Lodge,  bowing  all  to- 
gether to  the  Grand-Master,  shall  return  his  Worship  Thanks, 
and  immediately  do  their  Homage  to  their  new  Master,  and 
signily  their  Promise  of  Subjection  and  Obedience  to  him  by 
the  usual  Congratulation. 

The  Deputy  and  the  Grand-Wardens,  and  any  other  Breth- 
ren present,  that  are  not  Members  of  this  new  Lodge,  shall 
next  congratulate  the  new  Master  ;  and  he  shall  return  liis 
becoming  Acknowledgments  to  the  Grand-Master  first,  and  to 
the  rest  in  their  Order. 

Then  the  Grand-Master  desires  the  New  Master  to  enter 


80 


GENERAL  REGULATIONS. 


immediately  upon  the  Exorcise  of  his  OflBce,  in  chusing  his 
Wardens:  And  the  New  Master,  caUing  forth  two  Fellow- 
Craft,  presents  them  to  the  Grand-Master  for  his  Approbation, 
and  to  the  New  Lodge  for  their  Consent.  And  that  being 
granted, 

The  Senior  or  Junior  Grand- Warden,  or  some  Brother  for 
him,  shall  rehearse  the  Charges  of  Wardens ;  and  the  Candi- 
dates being  solemnly  ask'd  by  the  New  Master,  shall  signify 
their  submission  thereunto. 

Upon  which  the  New  Master,  presenting  them  with  the 
Instruments  of  their  Office,  shall,  in  due  Form,  install  them  in 
their  proper  Places;  and  the  Brethren  of  that  New  Lodge 
shall  signify  their  Obedience  to  the  new  Wardens  by  the  usual 
Congratulation. 

And  this  Lodge,  being  thus  compleatly  constituted, 
shall  be  register'd  in  the  Grand-Master's  Book,  and 
by  his  Order  notify'd  to  the  other  Lodges. 


APPROBATION. 

Whereas  by  the  Confusions  occasion'd  in  the  Saxon, 
Danish,  and  Norman  Wars,  the  Records  of  Masons  have  been 
much  vitiated,  the  Free  Masons  of  England  twice  thought  it 
necessary  to  correct  their  Constitutions,  Charges,  and  Reg- 
ulations ;  first  in  the  Reign  of  King  Athelstan  the  Saxon,  and 
long  after  in  the  Reign  of  King  Edward  IV.  the  Norman: 
And  Whereas  the  old  Constitutions  in  England  have  been 
much  interpolated,  mangled,  and  miserably  corrupted,  not 
only  with  false  Spelling,  but  even  with  many  false  Facts  and 
gross  Errors  in  History  and  Chronology,  through  Length  of 
Time,  and  the  Ignorance  of  Transcribers,  in  the  dark,  illiterate 
Ages,  before  the  Revival  of  Geometry  and  ancient  Architect- 
ure, to  the  great  Offence  of  all  the  learned  and  judicious 
Brethren,  whereby  also  the  Ignorant  have  been  deceiv'd. 

And  our  late  Worthy  Grand-Master,  his  Grace  the  Duke 
of  Montagu,  having  order'd  the  Author  to  peruse,  correct,  and 
digest,  into  a  new  and  better  Method,  the  History,  Charges, 
and  Regulations  of  the  ancient  Fraternity ;  He  has  accord- 
ingly examin'^  several  Copies  from  Italy  and  Scotland,  and 
sundry  Parts  of  England,  and  from  thence,  (tho'  in  many 
things  erroneous,)  and  from  several  other  ancient  Records  of 
Masons,  he  has  drawn  forth  the  above-written  new  Constitu- 
tions, with  the  Charges  and  General  Regulations.  And  the 
Author  having  submitted  the  whole  to  the  Perusal  and  Cor- 
rections of  the  late  and  present  Deputy  Grand-Masters,  and  of 
other  learned  Brethren  ;  and  also  of  the  Masters  and  Wardens 
of  particular  Lodges  at  their  Quarterly  Communication :  He 
did  regularly  deliver  them  to  the  late  Grand-Master  himself,  the 
said  Duke  of  Montagu,  for  his  Examination,  Correction,  and 
Approbation ;  and  his  Grace,  by  the  Advice  of  several  Breth- 
ren, order'd  the  same  to  be  handsomely  printed  for  the  use 
of  the  Lodges,  though  they  were  not  quite  ready  for  the 
Press  during  his  Mastership. 

Therefore  We,  the  present  Grand-Master  of  the  Right 
Worshipful  and  most  ancient  Fraternity  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  the  Deputy  Grand-Master,  the  Grand-Wardens,  the 
Masters  and  Wardens  of  particular  Lodges  (with  the  Consent 
of  the  Brethren  and  Fellows  in  and  about  the  Cities  of  Lon- 
don and  Westminster)  having  also  perused  this  Performance, 
Do  Join  our  laudable  Predecessors  in  our  solemn  Approbation 
4* 


82 


GENERAL    REGULATIONS. 


tlioreof,  as  wliat  We  believe  will  fully  answer  the  End  pro- 
posed ;  all  the  valuable  tilings  of  the  old  Records  being  re- 
tain'd,  the  Errors  in  History  and  Chronology  corrected,  the 
false  Facts  and  the  improper  Words  omitted,  and  the  whole 
digested  in  a  new  and  better  Method. 

And  we  ordain  That  these  be  receiv'd  in  every  particular 
Lodge  under  our  Cognizance,  as  the  Only  Constitutions  of  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons  amongst  us,  to  be  read  at  the  making  of 
new  Brethren,  or  when  the  Master  shall  think  fit;  and  which 
the  new  Brethren  should  peruse  before  they  are  made. 

Philip,  Duke  of  Wharton,  ©fvantr-flSaster* 

J.  T.  Desaguliers,  ll.  d.  and  f.  r.  s..  Deputy  Grand- Master. 

Joshua  Timsox,         )  ^       ,.  ^r^^ 
William  Hawkins,  f 

And  the  Masters  and  Wardens  of  particular  Lodges,  viz. 

L  Thomas  Morris,  sen.,  Master. 


John  Bristow,       \ 
Abraham  Abbot,    J 

IL  Richard  Hail,  Master. 
Phiup  Wolvebston,  \ 
JoHX  Dover,  j 

III.  John  Turner,  Master 


Wardens. 


Wardens. 


Anthony  Sayer, 
Ei)WARD  Cale, 


^'  I  Wardens. 
IV.  Mr.  Geosge  Payn-e,  Master. 

I  Wardeiis. 


Stephen  Hall,  M.  D., 
Francis  Sorell,  Esq., 

V.  Mr.  Math.  Birkhead,  Master 
Francis  Baily,  \  Tir 
Nicholas  Abraham,  j" 

VI.  William  Re^vd,  Ma&ter. 

John  Glover,        \  wardens 
RoBEiiT  Cordell,  I  ^y<^r<^^- 

vn.  Henry  Branson,  Master. 

Henry  Lug,  \  lyarden' 

JohnTownshknd,    j- '»'«'^««"' 

Vin.  Master. 

Jonathan  Sisson,  \ 
John  Shipton,       j 

IX.  George  Owen,  M.  D.,  Master 

Eman  Bowen,  \  irrardens 
John  Heath,  /  >^«»^«««s. 

X.  Master. 
John  Ludton. 
Richard 


^ardens. 


Wardens. 


Wardens. 


XI.  Franos,  Earl  of  Dalkeith,  Master. 
Capt.  Andrew  Robinson, •")  xir„„,7^„ 
Col.  Thomas  Lnwood         j  ^^^^'''^^ 

Xn.  John  Beal,  M.D.  and  F.R.S.,  Master. 
Edtv'ard  Pawlet,  Esq.,  1  rrrardens 
Charles  Moke,  Esq.,      J  ^«^««««- 

Xin  Thomas  MoriuSj  jun..  Master. 

XIV.  Thomas  Robbe,  Esq.,  Master. 

Thomas  GRA^-E, ")  -nr^,./,^^ 
Bray  Lane,      '\W<^rdens. 

XV.  Mr.  John  Shepherd,  Master. 
John  Senex,    ")  ttw^^^, 
JoiLN  BucLER,  j  ^«'-^^- 

XVI.  John  Georges,  Esq.,  Master. 

Robert  Gray,  Esq.,       \  lynrdens 

Charles  Grymes,  Esq.    '^  *^aiaens. 

xv: 

The 


} 

VII.  James  Anderson.  A.M.,  ")  ,f--/.,. 
The  autijor  of  this  JSooft.  ;^^'^«'' 
GwiNN  Vavghan,  Esq.^^^    |  ^y^..^^ 


Walter  Greenwood,  Esq 
XVIII.  Thomas  Harbln,  Master. 

WiLIJAM  ATTLi-nr,  ")  T,^ 

John  Sajcon,         /  ^* ' 
XEX.  Robert  Capell,  Master. 

Isaac  MANSFreLD 

WiLUAM  Blv, 
XX.  John  Gorman,  Master 

Charles  Garby, 

Edward  Morphey, 


''ardens. 


Wardens. 


Wardent 


THE   M  AS  T  ER'S    SONG; 

THE   HISTORY  OF  MASONRY. 

BY    THE    AUTHOR. 

To  be  sung  mth  a  Chorus,  when  the  Master  shall  give  leave,  either  (me 

Part  only,  or  altogether,  as  he  pleases. 

PART  I. 


Adam,  the  first  of  humane  Kind, 

Created  with  Geometry 
Imprinted  on  his  Royal  Mind, 

Instructed  soon  his  Progeny 
Cain  and  Seth,  who  then  improv'd 

The  hb'ral  Science  in  the  Art 
Of  Architecture,  which  they  lov'd, 

And  to  their  Offspring  did  impart. 

II. 
Cain  a  City  fair  and  strong 

First  Luilt,  and  call'd  it  Consecrate, 
From  Enoch's  Name,  his  eldest  Son, 

Which  all  his  Race  did  imitate. 
But  godly  Enoch,  of  Seth's  Loins, 

Two  Columns  rais'd  with  mighty  Skill 
And  all  his  Family  enjoins 

True  Colonading  to  fullfil. 

ni. 
Our  Father  Noah  next  appear'd, 

A  Mason  too  divinely  taught ; 
And  by  divine  Command  uprear'd 

The  Ark  that  held  a  goodly  Fraught: 


84  MASONIC     SONGS. 

'Twas  built  by  true  Geometry, 
A  Piece  of  Architecture  fine ; 

Helpt  by  his  Sons,  in  Number  Three, 
Concurring  in  the  Grand  Design. 


So  from  the  gen'ral  Deluge  none 

Were  sav'd,  but  Masons  and  their  Wiv  es ; 
And  all  Mankind  from  them  alone 

Descending,  Architecture  thrives ; 
For  they,  when  multiply'd  amain. 

Fit  to  disperse  and  fill  the  Earth, 
In  Shinar's  large  and  lovely  Plain 

To  Masonry  gave  second  Birth. 

V. 

For  most  of  Mankind  were  employ'd. 

To  build  the  City  and  the  Tow'r ; 
The  Gen'ral  Lodge  was  overjoy'd, 

In  such  Effects  of  Masons  Pow'r ; 
'Till  vain  Ambition  did  provoke 

Their  Maker  to  confound  their  Plot ; 
Yet  tho'  with  Tongues  confus'd  they  spoke, 

The  learned  Art  they  ne'er  forgot. 

CHORUS. 

Who  can  unfold  the  Royal  Art? 

Or  sing  its  Secrets  in  a  Song  ? 
They're  safely  kept  in  Mason's  Heart, 

And  to  the  ancient  Lodge  belong. 

[Stop  here  to  drink  the  present  Grand-Mastefs 
Health.] 


MASONIC     SONGS.  86 

PART  II. 

I. 

Thus  when  from  Babel  they  disperse 

In  Colonies  to  distant  Climes, 
All  Masons  true,  who  could  rehearse 

Their  Works  to  those  of  after  Times ; 
King  Nimrod  fortify'd  his  Realm, 

By  Castles,  Towr's,  and  Cities  fair : 
Mitzra'm,  who  rul'd  at  Egypt's  Helm, 

Built  Pyramids  stupendous  there. 

II. 
Nor  Japhet,  and  his  gallant  Breed, 

Did  less  in  Masonry  prevail ; 
Nor  Shem,  and  those  that  did  succeed 

To  promis'd  Blessings  by  Entail ; 
For  Father  Abram  brought  from  Ur 

Geometry,  the  Science  good ; 
Which  he  reveal'd,  without  demur, 

To  all  descending  from  his  Blood. 

in. 
Nay,  Jacob's  Race  at  length  were  taught, 

To  lay  aside  the  Shepherd's  Crook, 
To  use  Geometry  were  brought, 

Whilst  under  Phar'oh's  cruel  Yoke ; 
'Till  Moses  Master-Mason  rose. 

And  led  the  Holy  Lodge  from  thence, 
All  Masons  train'd,  to  whom  he  chose. 

His  curious  Learning  to  dispense. 

IV. 

Aholiab  and  Bezaleel, 

Inspired  Men,  the  Tent  uprear'd : 
Where  the  Shechinah  chose  to  dwell, 

And  Geometrick  Skill  appear'd : 


MASONIC     SONGS. 

And  when  these  valiant  Masons  fili'd 
Canaan,  the  leam'd  Phenicians  knew 

The  tribes  of  Isra'l  better  skill'd 
In  Architecture  firm  and  true. 

V. 

For  Dagon's  House  in  Gaza  Town 

Artfully  propt  by  Columns  two ; 
By  Samson's  mighty  Arms  pull'd  down 

On  Lords  Philistian,  whom  it  slew ; 
Tho'  'twas  the  finest  Fabrick  rais'd 

By  Canaan's  Sons,  could  not  compare 
With  the  Creator's  Temple  prais'd. 

For  glorious  Strength  and  Structure  fair. 

VI. 

But  here  we  stop  a  while  to  toast 

Our  Master's  Health  and  Wardens  both ; 
And  w^arn  you  all  to  shun  the  Coast 

Of  Samson's  Shipwrackt  Fame  and  Troth ; 
His  Secrets  once  to  Wife  disclos'd, 

His  Strength  was  fled,  his  Courage  tam'd, 
To  Cruel  Foes  he  was  expos'd, 

And  never  was  a  Mason  nam'd. 

CHORUS. 

Wlio  can  unfold  the  Royal  Art? 

Or  sing  its  Secrets  in  a  Song  ? 
They're  safely  kept  in  Mason's  Heart, 

And  to  the  Ancient  Lodge  belong. 

[Stop  here  to  drink  the  Health  of  the  Master  and 
Wardens  of  this  particular  Lodge  ] 


MASONIC    SONGS.  SI 


PART  III. 

I. 

We  sing  of  Masons'  ancient  Fame, 

When  fourscore  Thousand  Craftsmen  stood, 
Under  the  Masters  of  great  Name, 

Three  Thousand  and  six  Hundred  good, 
Employ'd  by  Solomon  the  Sire, 

And  Gen'ral  Master-Mason  too ; 
As  Hiram  was  in  stately  Tyi'e, 

Like  Salem,  built  by  Masons  true. 

II. 
The  Royal  Art  was  then  divine, 

The  Craftsmen  counsell'd  from  above. 
The  Temple  did  all  Works  outshine, 

The  wond'ring  World  did  all  approve ; 
Ingenious  Men,  from  every  Place, 

Came  to  survey  the  glorious  Pile ; 
And,  when  return'd,  began  to  trace 

And  imitate  its  lofty  Style. 

III. 
At  length  the  Grecians  came  to  know 

Geometry,  and  learnt  the  Art, 
Which  great  Pythagoras  did  show, 

And  glorious  Euclid  did  impart; 
Th'  amazing  Archimedes,  too, 

And  many  other  Scholars  good  ; 
Till  ancient  Romans  did  review 

The  Art,  and  Science  understood. 

IV. 

But  when  proud  Asia  they  had  quell'd. 
And  Greece  and  Egypt  overcome. 

In  Architecture  they  excell'd. 

And  bro-ught  the  Learning  all  to  Rome ; 


88  MASONIC    SONGS. 

Where  wise  Vitruvius,  Master  prime 

Of  Architects,  the  Art  improv'd, 
In  great  Augustus'  peaceful  Time, 

When  Arts  and  Aiiists  were  belov'd 

V. 

They  brought  the  Knowledge  from  the  East; 

And  as  they  made  the  Nations  yield, 
They  spread  it  thro'  the  North  and  West, 

And  taught  the  World  the  Art  to  build; 
Witness  their  Citadels  and  Tow'rs, 

To  fortify  their  Legions  .fine, 
Their  Temples,  Palaces,  and  Bow'rs, 

That  spoke  the  Masons'  Grand  Design. 

TI. 

Thus  mighty  Eastern  Kings,  and  some 

Of  Abram's  Race,  and  Monarchs  good, 
Of  Egypt,  Syria,  Greece,  and  Rome, 

True  Architecture  understood : 
No  wonder,  then,  if  Masons  join, 

To  celebrate  those  Mason-Kings, 
With  solemn  Note  and  flowing  Wine, 

Whilst  ev'ry  Brother  jointly  sings. 

CHORUS. 

Who  can  unfold  the  Royal  Art? 

Or  sing  its  Secrets  in  a  Song  ? 
They're  safely  kept  in  Mason's  Heart, 

And  to  the  ancient  Lodge  belong. 

[Stop  here  to  drink  to  the  glorious  Memory  of  Empe- 
rors, Kings,  Princes,  Nobles,  Gentry,  Clergy,  and 
learned  Scholars  that  ever  propagated  the  Art.] 


MASONIC    SONGS.  89 


PART  TV. 

I. 
Oh  !  glorious  Days  for  Masons  wise, 

O'er  all  the  Roman  Empire  when 
Their  Fame,  resounding  to  the  Skies, 

Proclaim'd  them  good  and  useful  Men ; 
For  many  Ages  thus  employ'd, 

Until  the  Goths,  with  Avarlike  Rage, 
And  brutal  Ignorance,  destroy 'd 

The  Toil  of  many  a  learned  Age. 

n. 
But  when  the  conqu'ring  Goths  were  brought 

T'  embrace  the  Christian  Faith,  they  found 
The  Folly  that  their  Fathers  wrought, 

In  loss  of  Architecture  sound. 
At  length  their  Zeal  for  stately  Fanes 

And  wealthy  Grandeur,  when  at  Peace, 
Made  them  exert  their  utmost  Pains, 

Their  GoTinc  Buildings  to  upraise. 

III. 
Thus  many  a  sumptuous  lofly  Pile 

Was  rais'd  in  every  Christian  Land, 
Tho'  not  conform'd  to  Roman  Style, 

Yet  which  did  Reverence  command ; 
The  King  and  Ceaft  agreeing  stfll, 

In  well-form'd  Lodges  to  supply 
The  mournful  Want  of  Roman  SkiU 

With  their  new  sort  of  Masonry. 

IV. 

For  many  Ages  this  prevails, 

Their  Work  is  Architecture  deem'd ; 

In  England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Wales, 
The  Craftsmen  highly  are  esteem*  d, 


90  MASONIC    SONGS. 

By  Kings,  as  Masters  of  the  Lodge, 

By  many  a  wealthy,  noble  Peer, 
By  Lord  and  Lah'd,  by  Priest  and  Judge, 

By  all  the  People  every  where. 

V. 

So  Masons'  ayuient  Records  tell, 

King  Athelstan,  of  Saxon  Blood, 
Gave  them  a  Charter  free  to  dwell 

In  Lofty  Lodge,  with  Orders  good. 
Drawn  from  old  Writings  by  his  Son, 

Prince  Edwin,  General  Master  bright. 
Who  met  at  York  the  Brethren  soon, 

And  to  that  Lodge  did  all  recite. 

VI. 

Thence  were  their  Laws  and  Charges  fine 

In  ev'ry  Reign  observ'd  with  Care, 
Of  Saxon,  Danish,  Norman  Line, 

Till  British  Crowns  united  were : 
The  Monarch  First  of  this  whole  Isle 

Was  learned  James,  a  Mason  King, 
Who  First  of  Kings  reviv'd  the  Style 

Of  Great  Augustus :  Therefore  sing. 

.  CHORUS. 

Who  can  unfold  the  Royal  Art  7 

Or  sing  its  Secrets  in  a  Song? 
They're  safely  kept  in  Mason's  Heart, 

And  to  the  ancient  Lodge  belong. 

[Stop  here  to  drink  to  the  happy  Memory  of  all  the 
Revivers  of  the  ancient  Augustan  Style.] 


MASONIC    SONGS.  91 

PART  Y. 

I. 
Thus  tlio'  in  Italy  the  Art 

From  GoTiiicK  Rubbish  first  was  rais'd  ; 
And  great  Palladio  did  impart 

A  Style  by  Masons  justly  prais'd : 
Yet  here  his  mighty  Rival  Jones, 

Of  British  Architects  the  Prime, 
Did  build  such  glorious  Heaps  of  Stones, 

As  ne'er  were  matched  since  Cassar's  Time. 

n. 

King  Charles  the  First,  a  Mason  too, 

With  several  Peers  and  wealthy  Men, 
Employ'd  him  and  his  Craftsmen  true, 

'Till  wretched  Civil  Wars  began. 
But  after  Peace  and  Crown  restor'd, 

Tho'  London  was  in  Ashes  laid, 
By  Masons  Art  and  good  Accord, 

A  finer  London  rear'd  its  Head. 

in 

King  Charles  the  Second  raised  then 

The  finest  Column  upon  Earth, 
Founded  St.  Paul's,  that  stately  Fane, 

And  Royal  Change,  with  Joy  and  Mirth: 
But  afterwards  the  Lodges  fail'd, 

'Till  Great  Nassau  the  Tast  reviv'd, 
Whose  bright  Example  so  prevail'd, 

That  ever  since  the  Art  has  thriv'd. 

rv. 
Let  other  Nations  boast  at  will. 

Great  Britain  now  will  yield  to  none, 
For  true  Geometry  and  Skill, 

In  building  Timber,  Brick,  and  Stone; 


MASONIC     SONGS. 

For  Architecture  of  each  sort, 

For  curious  Lodges,  where  we  find 

The  Noble  and  tlie  Wise  resort, 

And  drink  with  Craftsmen  true  and  kind. 

V. 

Then  let  good  Brethren  all  rejoice, 

And  fill  their  Glass  with  cheerful  Heart ; 

Let  them  express  with  grateful  Voice 
The  praises  of  the  wond'rous  Art; 

Let  ev'ry  Brother's  Health  go  round, 
Not  Fool  or  Knave,  but  Mason  true ; 

And  let  our  Master's  Fame  resound, 
The  noble  Duke  of  Montagn. 

CHORUS. 

Who  can  unfold  the  Royal  Art? 

Or  sing  its  Secrets  in  a  Song  ? 
They're  safely  kept  in  Mason's  Heart, 

And  to  the  ancient  Lodge  belong. 


THE  WARDEN'S  SONG; 

OR, 

ANOTHER  HISTORY  OF  MASONRY. 

COMPOs'd    since   the   most    noble    prince    PHILIP,   DUKE    OF 
WHARTON,  WAS    CHOSEN    GRAND-MASTER. 

BY    THE    AUTHOR. 
To  be  sung  and  play'd  at  the  Quarterly  Communication. 

I. 

When  e'er  we  are  alone, 

And  ev'ry  Stranger  gone. 
In  Summer,  Autmun,  Winter,  Spring, 
Begin  to  play,  begin  to  sing. 
The  mighty  Genius  of  the  lofty  Lodge, 

In  ev'ry  Age 

That  did  engage 
And  well  inspir'd  the  Prince,  the  Priest,  the  Judge, 
The  Noble  and  the  Wise  to  join 
In  Rearing  Masons'  Grand  Design. 

n. 
The  Grand  Design  to  rear, 
Was  ever  Masons'  Care, 
From  Adam  down  before  the  Flood, 
Whose  Art  old  Noah  understood. 
And  did  impart  to  Japhet,  Shem,  and  Ham, 
Who  taught  their  Race 
To  build  apace 
Proud  Babel's  Town  and  Tow'r,  until  it  came 
To  be  admir'd  too  much,  and  then 
Dispersed  were  the  Sons  of  Men. 


94  MASONIC    SONGS. 

in. 

But  the'  their  Tongues  confus'd 
In  distant  Climes  they  us'd, 
They  brought  from  Shinar  Orders  good, 
To  rear  the  Art  they  understood : 
Therefore  sing  first  the  Princes  of  the  Isles ; 
Next  Belus  Great, 
Who  fixt  his  Seat 
In  old  Assyria,  building  stately  Piles ; 
And  Mitzraim's  Pyramids  among 
The  other  subjects  of  our  Song. 

And  Shem,  who  did  instil 
The  useful  wond'rous  Skill 
Into  the  Minds  of  Nations  great : 
And  Abram  next,  who  did  relate 

Th'  Assyrian  Learning  to  his  Sons,  that  when 
In  Egypt's  Land, 
By  Pharaoh's  Hand, 

Were  roughly  taught  to  be  most  skilful  Men ; 
Till  their  Grand-Master  Moses  rose, 
And  them  deliver'd  from  their  Foes. 


But  who  can  sing  his  Praise, 

Who  did  the  Tent  upraise  ? 
Then  sing  his  Workmen  true  as  Steel, 
Aholiab  and  Bezaleel ; 
Sing  Tyre  and  Sydon,  and  Phenicians  old. 

But  Samson's  Blot 

Is  ne'er  forgot : 
He  blabb'd  his  Secrets  to  his  Wife,  that  sold 
Her  Husband,  who  at  last  pull'd  down 
The  House  on  all  in  Gaza  Town. 


MASONIC    SONGS.  95 

m 

n. 

But  Solomon  the  King 

With  solemn  Note  we  sing, 
Who  rear'd  at  length  the  Grand  Design, 
By  Wealth,  and  Pow'r,  and  Art  divine ; 
Helpt  by  the  learned  Hiram,  Tyrian  Prince, 

By  Craftsmen  good. 

That  understood 
Wise  Hiram  Abif  's  charming  Influence : 
He  aided  Jewish  Masters  bright, 
Whose  cm'ious  Works  none  can  recite. 

Tn. 

These  glorious  Mason  Kings 

Each  thankful  Brother  sings, 
Who  to  its  Zenith  rais'd  the  Art, 
And  to  all  Nations  did  impart 
The  useful  Skill :   For  from  the  Temple  fine, 

To  ev'ry  Land, 

And  foreign  Strand, 
The  Craftsmen  march'd,  and  taught  the  Grand  Design ; 
Of  which  the  Kings,  with  mighty  Peers, 
And  learned  Men,  were  Overseers. 

vm. 

Diana's  Temple  next, 

In  Lesser  Asia  fixt : 
And  Babylon's  proud  Walls,  the  Seat 
Of  Nebuchadnezar  the  Great ; 
The  Tomb  of  Mausolus,  the  Carian  King ; 

With  many  a  Pile 

Of  lofty  Style 
In  Africa  and  Greater  Asia,  sing, 
In  Greece,  in  Sicily,  and  Rome, 
That  had  those  Nations  overcome. 


96  MASONIC    SONGS. 


Then  sing  Augustus  too, 
The  Gen'ral  Master  true, 
Who  by  Vitrivius  did  refine, 
And  spread  the  Masons'  Grand  Design 
Thro'  North  and  West,  till  ancient  Britons  chose 
The  Royal  Art 
In  ev'ry  Part, 
And  Roman  Architecture  could  disclose ; 
Until  the  Saxons  warlike  Rage 
Destroy'd  the  Skill  of  many  an  Age. 


At  length  the  Gothick  Style 
Prevail'd  in  Britain's  Isle, 
When  Masons'  Grand  Design  reviv'd, 
And  in  their  well  form'd  Lodges  thriv'd, 
Tho'  not  as  formerly  in  Roman  Days : 
Yet  sing  the  Fanes 
Of  Saxon  Danes, 
Of  Scots,  Welsh,  Irish  ;  but  sing  first  the  Praise 
Of  Athelstan  and  Edwin  Prince, 
Our  Master  of  great  Influence. 

XI. 

And  eke  the  Nokman  Kings 

The  British  Mason  sings ; 
'Till  Roman  Style  revived  there, 
And  British  Crowns  united  were 
In  learned  James,  a  Mason  King,  who  rais'd 

Fine  Heaps  of  Stones 

By  Inigo  Jones, 
That  rival'd  wise  Palladio,  justly  prais'd 
In  Italy,  and  Britain  too, 
For  Architecture  firm  and  true. 


MASONIC    SONGS. 
XII. 

And  thence  in  ev'ry  Reign 

Did  Masonry  obtain 
With  Kings,  the  Noble  and  the  Wise, 
Whose  Fame,  resounding  to  the  Sides, 
Excites  the  present  Age  in  Lodge  to  join, 

And  Aprons  wear 

With  Skill  and  Care, 
To  raise  the  Masons  ancient  Grand  Design, 
And  to  revive  th'  Augustan  Style 
In  many  an  artful  glorious  Pile. 

XIII. 

From  henceforth  ever  sing 

The  Craftsman  and  the  King, 
With  Poetry  and  Musick  sweet 
Resound  their  Harmony  compleat ; 
And  with  Geometry  in  skilful  Hand, 

Due  Homage  pay, 

Without  Delay, 
To  Wharton's  noble  Duke,  our  Master  Grand: 
He  rules  the  Free-born  Sons  of  Art, 
By  Love  and  Friendship,  Hand  and  Heart. 

CHORUS. 

Who  can  rehearse  the  Praise, 
In  soft  Poetick  Lays, 
Or  Solid  Prose,  of  Masons  true. 
Whose  Art  transcends  the  common  View  ? 
Their  Secrets,  ne'er  to  Strangers  yet  expos'd, 
Preserv'd  shall  be 
By  Masons  Free, 
And  only  to  the  ancient  Lodge  disclos'd ; 
Because  they're  kept  in  Masons'  Heart 
By  Brethren  of  the  Royal  Art. 
5 


THE  FELLOW-CRAFT'S  SONG 

BY  OUR  BROTHER  CHARLES  DELAFAYE,  ESQ. 
To  be  sung  and  play'd  at  the  Grand-Feast. 


Hail,  Masonry  !  thou  Craft  divine ! 

Glory  of  Earth,  from  Heav'n  reveal'd; 
Which  dost  with  Jewels  precious  shine, 

From  all  but  Masons'  Eyes  conceal'd. 

CHORUS. 

Thy  Praises  due  who  can  rehearse 
In  nervous  Prose,  or  flowing  Verse  ? 

II. 
As  Men  from  Brutes  distinguisht  are, 

A  Mason  other  Men  excels ; 
For  what's  in  Knowledge  choice  and  rare 

But  in  his  Breast  securely  dwells  ? 

CHORUS. 

His  silent  Breast  and  ftiithful  Heart 
Preserve  the  Secrets  of  the  Art. 

III. 
From  scorching  Heat,  and  piercing  Cold ; 

From  Beasts,  whose  Roar  the  Forest  rends ; 
From  the  Assaults  of  Warriours  bold 

The  Masons'  Art  Mankind  defends. 

CHORUS. 

Be  to  this  Art  due  Honour  paid, 

From  which  Mankind  receives  such  Aid. 


/       MASONIC    SONGS  99 

IV. 

Ensigns  of  State,  that  feed  our  Pride, 

Distinctions  troublesome,  and  vain! 
By  Masons  true  are  laid  aside: 

Art's  free-born  Sons  such  Toys  disdain. 

CHORUS. 

Ennobled  by  the  Name  they  bear, 
Distinguisht  by  the  Badge  they  wear. 

V. 

Sweet  Fellowship,  from  Envy  free: 

Friendly  Converse  of  Brotherhood ; 
The  Lodge's  lasting  Cement  be ! 

Which  has  for  Ages  firmly  stood. 

CHORUS. 

A  Lodge  thus  built,  for  Ages  past 
Has  lasted,  and  will  ever  last. 

VI. 

Then  in  our  Songs  be  Justice  done 

To  those  who  have  enrich'd  the  Art, 
From  Jabai.  down  to  Burlington, 

And  let  each  Brother  bear  a  Part. 

CHORUS. 

Let  noble  Masons'  Healths  go  round : 
Their  Praise  in  lofty  Lodge  resound. 


THE 

ENTER'D  'PRENTICE'S  SONG. 

BY  OUR  LATE  BROTHER 

MR.  MATTHEW  BIRKHEAD,  DECEAS'D. 

To  be  sung  wlien  all  grave  Business  is  over,  and  with  the  Master's  leave. 


Come,  let  us  prepare, 

We  Brothers  that  are 
Assembled  on  merry  Occasion; 

Let's  drink,  laugh,  and  sing ; 

Our  Wine  has  a  Spring : 
Here's  a  Health  to  an  Accepted  Mason. 

n. 

The  World  is  in  pain 

Our  Secrets  to  gain, 
And  still  let  them  wonder  and  gaze  on ; 

They  ne'er  can  divine 

The  Word  or  the  Sign 
Of  a  rree  and  an  Accepted  Mason. 

III. 

Tis  Tfiis  and  'tis  Thai, 

They  cannot  tell  What, 
Why  so  many  Great  Men  of  the  Nation 

Should  Aprons  put  on. 

To  make  themselves  one 
With  a  Free  and  an  Accepted  Mason. 

IV. 

Great  Kings,  Dukes,  and  Lords, 
Have  laid  by  their  Swords, 
Our  Mysfry  to  put  a  good  Grace  on ; 


ANCIENT  EXTRACT.  101 

And  ne'er  been  asham'd  • 

To  hear  themselves  nam'd 
With  a  Free  and  an  Accepted  Mason. 


Antiquity's  Pride 

We  have  on  our  side, 
And  it  maketh  Men  just  in  their  Station : 

There's  nought  but  what's  good 

To  be  understood 
By  a  Free  and  an  Accepted  Mason. 

VI. 

Then  join  Hand  in  Hand, 

T'  each  other  firm  stand, 
Let's  be  merry,  and  put  a  bright  Face  on. 

What  Mortal  can  boast 

So  Noble  a  Toast, 
As  a  Free  and  an  Accepted  Mason? 


It  is  thought  not  amiss  to  insert  here  a  Paragraph  from  an 
old  Record  of  Masons,  viz.  The  Company  of  Masons,  being 
otherwise  termed  Free  Masons,  of  ancient  Standing  and  good 
Reckoning,  by  means  of  affable  and  kind  Meetings  diverse 
Tymes,  and  as  a  loving  Brotherhood  showld  use  to  doe,  did 
frequent  this  mutual  Assembly  in  the  Tyme  of  King  Henry 
V.  the  12th  Year  of  his  most  gracious  Reign.  And  the  said 
Record  describing  a  Coat  of  Arms,  much  the  same  with  that 
of  the  London  Company  of  Freemen  Masons,  it  is  generally 
believ'd  that  the  said  Company  is  descended  of  the  ancient 
Fraternity ;  and  that  in  former  Times  no  Man  was  made  Free 
of  that  Company,  until  he  was  install'd  in  some  Lodge  of  Free 


lU2i  RECOMMENDATION. 

and  Accej^ted  Masons,  as  a  necessary  Qualification.  But  that 
laudable  Practice  seems  to  have  been  long  in  Dissuetude. 
The  Brethren  in  foreign  Parts  have  also  discover'd  that  sev- 
eral noble  and  ancient  Societies  and  Orders  of  ^Men  have  de- 
rived their  Charges  and  Regulations  from  the  Free  Masons, 
(which  are  now  the  most  ancient  Order  upon  Earth,)  and  per- 
haps were  originally  all  Members  too  of  the  said  ancient  and 
worshipful  Fraternity.  But  this  will  more  fully  appear  in 
due  time. 


London,  this  11th  Bay  of  January,  172g. 
At  the  Quarterly  Communication,  This  Book,  which 
was  undertaken  at  the  Command  of  His  Grace  the  Duke 
of  Montagu,  our  late  CKrantr-i^aBter,  having  been  regu- 
larly approved  in  Manuscript  by  the  Grand-Lodge,  was 
this  Day  produced  here  in  Print,  and  approved  by  the 
Society :  Wherefore  we  do  hereby  Order  the  same  to  be 
Published,  and  recommend  it  for  the  Use  of  the  Lodges. 

Philip,  Duke  of  Wharton,  Grand-Master. 
I.  T.  Desaguliers,  Deputy  Grand-Master. 


FINIS 


ANALYTICAL  INDEXES 

TO 
PREPARED  BY 

ALBERT    G.   MACKEY.  M.D. 


INDEX   TO   THE   HISTORICAL  PART. 

A. 

Abraham  learaed  Geometry  and  the  kindred  Arts  in  Ur  of  the  Chal- 

dees,  and  transmitted  them  to  his  sons,       -        -                        -  16 
Adam  had  the  principles  of  Geometry  and  the  hberal  Sciences  impressed 

upon  his  heart, 11 

"    taught  his  sons  Geometry,  and  its  use, 12 

African  nations  conjectured  to  have  imitated  the  Egyptians  in  Masonry,  31 

Aholiab  with  Bezaleel  erected  the  Tabernacle,          ■        -       -       -  17 

Anne,  Queen  of  England,  encouraged  Architecture,       -       -       -        -  49 

Archimedes,  a  prodigious  Geometrician  in  Sicily,        -        -        -     *  -  31 

Architecture  flourished  in  the  reign  of  William  III.,        -        -        -        -  48 

Ark  of  Noah  fabricated  by  Geometry  according  to  the  rules  of  Masonr}-,  13 

Arms  of  Freemasonry  in  the  reign  of  Henry  V.,       -       -       -       -  98 

Athelstane,  King  of  England,  encouraged  Masons  from  France,    -        -  39 

"         improved  the  Constitutions  of  the  English  Lodges,   -       -  39 

"          increased  the  "Wages  of  the  working  Masons,      -        -        -  39 

"         granted  a  free  Charter,  for  the  assembling  of  the  Masons, 

to  his  son.  Prince  Edwin,  about  a.d.  930,         -        -        -       -  39 

Augustan  style  of  Architecture  defined, 33 

Augustus,  Emperor  of  Rome,  encouraged  Masonry  and  the  Masons,  and 

particularly  Vitruvius, 32 

"        became  the  Grand  Master  of  Masons  at  Rome,     -  32 


104  ANALYTICAL  INDEX. 

B. 

Baal,  or  Bel,  was  one  name  by  which  Nimrod  was  worshiped.    Note,    14 

Babylon,  city  of,  described, Note,    25 

Bonai,  or  builders,  at  the  Temple,  defined, 19 

Britons,  the  ancient,  had  a  few  remains  of  good  Masonry  before  the 

Roman  conquest,      - 35 

Buildings,  list  of  those  erected  in  England  since  the  revival  of  Ma- 
sonry,       Note,    52 

C. 

Cain  built  a  city,  and  called  it  consecrated  or  dedicated,  after  the  name 

of  Enoch,  his  son, 12 

"    posterity  of,  imitated  his  example  in  the  improvement  of  Geometry 

and  Masonry, -        -        -        12 

"    erected  many  curious  works,  14 

Canaan,  sons  of,  erected  many  beautiful  temples  and  mansions,         -        15 

Candidates,  by  Prince  Edwin's  constitutions,  were  to  be  examined  before 

they  were  admitted  as  Master  Masons, 40 

Captives  at  Babylon  retained  their  skill  in  Masonry,  by  building  the 

works  of  Nebuchadnezzar,       -        -  -        -        -        -        26 

"      rebuilt  the  Temple  of  Jerusalem,  a.m.  3468,        -        -        -        -    26 

Celtic  edifices  were  erected  by  the  ancient  Gauls  and  Britons  before  the 

Roman  conquest, 35 

Chaldees  and  Magi  preserved  Geometry  on  the  Tigris  and  Euphrates,        14 

Charles  I.  was  an  accepted  Freemason, 46 

"        founded  St.  Paul's  in  1666,          -        -                -        -        -        47 
"     _  founded  other  edifices, 47 

Charles  Martel,  King  of  France,  sent  expert  Craftsmen  and  learned 

Architects  to  England,  a.d.  741, 37 

Civil  Wars,  Masonry  languished  during  the, 46 

Colossus  of  Rhodes  described, Note,    33 

Confusion  of  languages  helped  to  give  rise  to  the  Masonic  modes  of  re- 
cognition,      14 

Constitution  and  Charges  of  an  English  Lodge  were  framed  by  the 
Assembly  at  York,  from  all  the  writings  and  records  in  Greek, 
Latin,  French,  and  other  languages  then  extant,      -       -       -       39 
"      and  charges  ordered  to  be  read  by  the  Master  and  Warden,  on 
the  admission  of  a  new  Brother, 40 

Cyrus  was  Grand  Master,  a.m.  3468,  and  ordered  the  rebuilding  of  the 

Temple  at  Jerusalem. 26 


ANALYTICAL  INDEX.  105 

D. 

Dagon,  Temple  of,  described,        ...  .       .       .       .    jg 

Danes,  the  invasion  of,  occasioned  the  loss  of  many  Masonic  records,  in 

England,  A.D.  832, 37 

E. 

Edwin,  Prince,  summoned  a  General  Assembly  of  Masons  at  York, 

about  930, 39 

"  obtained  a  free  Charter  for  them  from  his  father,  King  Athelstane ,  39 
Elizabeth,  Queen,  discouraged  Masonry,  because,  being  a  woman,  she 

could  not  be  made  a  Mason, 44 

"      anecdote  of  her, Note,    44 

England  received  Masonry  from  France  in  the  reign  of  King  Charles 

Martel,  A.D.  741, 37 

Enoch  erected  two  pillars,  which  by  some,  however,  have  been  attributed 

toSeth,  ..-....-.  j^ote,  12 
Entered  Apprentices,  directions  to,  in  an  old  MS.,  -  -  -  Noie,  41 
Euclid  gathered  up  the  scattered  elements  of  Geometry,  and  digested 

these  into  a  method,  at  Alexandria,  a.m.  3700,  -  -  -  -  80 
Europe,  northern,  there  are  few  remains  of  good  Masonry  there  before 

the  Roman  conquest, 35 

Expelled  Masons,  an  old  regulation  concerning,       -       -       -       2iote,    40 

F. 
Forty-seventh  Propositibn  of  Euclid's  first  book  is  the  foundation  of  all 

Masonry,  -       -       -       -  -       -  ...        29 

Freemasons'  Arms,  in  the  reign  ot  Henry  V.,  were  the  same  as  those  of 

the  "Working  Masons, 98 

G. 
General  Assembly  held  at  York,  and  framed  the  Constitution  and  Charges 

of  the  English  Lodges, 39 

Geometry  was  written  on  the  heart  of  Adam, 11 

"        is  the  foundation  of  all  the  mechanical  Arts,  and  particularly  of 

Masonry  and  Architecture, 11 

"        was  taught  by  Adam  to  his  sons, 12 

"        and  Masonry  practised  by  Cain  and  Seth,  -       -        -        12 

"  brought  by  Noah  and  his  sons  from  the  Old  World  to  the  New,  13 
"  and  Masonry  practised  in  the  Vale  of  Shinar,  -  -  -  13 
"  "  carried  by  the  workmen  thence  after  their  disper- 

sion into  distant  parts,  .        .       .       ^        .       .       -       -    13 

"        and  Masonry  lost  in  most  parts  of  the  earth,        -        -       -        13 
5* 


106  ANALYTICAL  INDEX. 

Geometry  and  Masonry  preserved  by  Nimrod  in  Shinar  and  Assyria,      -  13 
"        afterwards  preserved  on  the  Tigris  and  Euphrates  by  the  Chal- 

dees  and  Magi, 14 

*'        and  Masonry  were  thence  transmitted  to  later  ages,        -       -  14 
"              "             were  much  unproved  in  Egypt,  from  the  overflow- 
ings of  the  Nile, 15 

"        was  cultivated  in  Greece  after  the  time  of  Pythagoras,    -       -  29 

"        was  digested  into  a  method  by  Euclid  at  Alexandria,  a.m.  3700,  30 

George  I.  encouraged  the  revival  of  the  ancient  style,        -       -       -  50 

"         laid  the  foundation-stone  of  the  chapel  of  St.  Martin  in  campis,  50 

Ghiblim,  the  Stonecutters  at  the  Temple,        ....       Note,  19 

Gothic  style  was  encouraged  in  England  during  the  Heptarchy,    -       -  37 

Goths  and  Vandals  were  enemies  of  Masonry, 35 

Grand  Master  was  always  nobly  born  in  Scotland,         -       -       -       -  43 

Greece,  Masonry  carried  into,  after  the  Temple,         -       -       -       -  28 

"      not  distinguished  for  knowledge  of  Geometry  until  the  time  of 

Thales,  A.M.  3457, 28 

"      knowledge  of  Geometry  and  Masonry  in,  was  revived  by  its  cor- 
respondence with  the  Asiatics  and  Egyptians,         -       -    Note,  28 

H. 

Harodim,  the  Eulers  or  Provosts  at  the  Temple, 19 

Henry  V.,  condition  of  Masonry  in  the  reign  of,  -       •       -       -        -  98 

Henry  VI.  approved  the  Constitutions  of  Prince  Edwin,        -       -       -  40 

"         act  passed  in  the  reign  of,  was  made  for  the  Working  Masons ,  42 

"        act  of,  was  never  enforced  against  the  Freemasons,  -       -  42 

Hiram  Abif,  meaning  of  his  name, Note,  20 

"         "     his  character, 21 

"         "     called  Master  of  the  Work, 23 

Hiram,  King  of  Tyre, 20 

"         "  "      was  Grand  Master  of  the  Lodge  at  Tyre,     •       -  23 

I. 

Ish  Chotzeb,  the  Hewers  of  the  Temple,         ....       Note,  19 

Ish  Sabbal,  the  Laborers  at  the  Temple, 19 

Israelites,  forced  by  the  kings  of  Egypt  to  learn  Masonry,      -       -       -  17 

"        were  a  whole  kingdom  of  Masons  when  they  left  Egypt,     -  17 
"        improved  Masonry  after  they  possessed  Canaan,  by  special 

direction  of  Heaven, 17 

"        none  of  the  neighboring  nations  could  equal  them  in  Masonry,  24 


ANALYTICAL  INDEX.  107 

J. 

James  I.  revived  the  English  Lodges, 45 

"        revived  the  Augustan  style  in  England, 45 

James  11.,  Lodges  dwindled  in  the  reign  of, 48 

Japhet,  posterity  of,  were  skilled  in  Geometry  and  Masonry,          -       -  13 

Jones,  Inigo,  was  a  successful  imitator  of  Palladio,     -       .       -       -  45 

"         "      his  genius  and  works,         ...               .       27bte,  46 

Jupiter,  Olympus,  statue  of,  described, 33 

K. 
King's  Freemason  or  General  Smveyorwas  the  name  of  an  officer  in  the 

reign  of  Edward  IIL, 38 

Knighthood,  military  orders  of,  borrowed  many  of  their  usages  from 

Masonry, 62 

L. 

Lodge  of  Masons  in  every  Roman  garrison, 34 

Lodges,  their  revival  in  London, 54 

list  of,  in  London  in  1723, 82 

M. 

Mahometans  were  enemies  of  Masomy, 35 

Masonry,  the  Old  World  was  not  ignorant  of  it,  -  -  -  -  -  13 
"  was  communicated  to  the  New  World  by  Noah  and  his  sons,  13 
"  was  can-ied,  after  the  dlsijersion  at  Babel,  into  distant  parts,  13 
"  was  preserved  by  Nimrod  in  Shiuar  and  Assyria,  -  -  13 
"  was  encouraged  by  the  kings  and  great  men  there,  -  -  14 
"  was  transmitted  thence,  with  Geometry,  to  later  ages  and  dis- 
tant climes, 14 

"         was  brought  to  Egypt  by  Mitzraim,  160  years  after  the  flood,  15 
"         was  improved  in  all  the  nations  which  were  adjacent  to  Judea, 

after  the  building  of  the  Temple ,  by  the  dispersion  of  the  workmen ,  2  3 

"         was  extended  to  Greece, -       -  28 

"         was  extended  to  Lower  Asia,       -       -                      -       -  29 

"         was  cultivated  in  Greece,        ...                       -       -  30 

"         was  cultivated  in  Sicily,       ....               -       -  31 

"         was  transmitted  from  Sicily  to  Rome, 32 

"         was  extended  to  Ultima  Thule, -  34 

"         was  encouraged  by  the  Saxons  and  Normans,        -       -       -  3Q 

"         was  encouraged  in  Scotland,        ......  43 


108  ANALYTICAL  INDEX, 

Masonry  was  discountenanced  by  Queen  Elizabeth,        -       -       -       -  44 

"         was  encouraged  by  James  I., 45 

"         was  encouraged  by  Charles  II., 47 

"         languished  during  the  Civil  Wars, 46 

"         recovered  at  the  Restoration,  in  1666, 46 

"         dwindled  in  the  reign  of  James  II., 47 

"         had  a  mighty  iufluence  in  every  age  and  nation,      -       -       -  51 

"         condition  of,  in  England,  in  1723, 45 

Masons  were  always  the  favorites  of  the  eminent,  in  times  of  peace  and 

freedom, 33 

Mausoleum,  the,  described, 29 

Menatzchim,  the  Overseers  at  the  Temple,     ....        Note,  19 

Montagu,  Duke  of,  Grand  Master  of  England, 54 

Monument,  the  London,  described, Note,  48 

Moses,  the  General  Master  Mason, 18 

N. 
Nebuchadnezzar  set  liis  heart  on  Architecture,  and  became  the  Grand 

Master  Mason,  a.m.  3416,     -        -       .       .               -       -       -  25 

"                  built  Babylon, 25 

Nimrod  preserved  Masonry  in  Shinar  and  Assyria,        -       -       -       -  13 

"      built  many  cities, 14 

Noah  and  three  sons  were  all  true  Masons, 13 

"  "        "    brought  with  them,  over  the  flood,  the  traditions 

and  arts  of  the  antediluvians, 13 

Normans  encouraged  Masoniy, 37 

O. 

Overseers  at  the  Temple,    - Noie,  19 

Oxford  Theatre  described, 49 

P. 

Painters  always  have  been  reckoned  as  good  Masons,  because  they  per- 
form according  to  Geometry  and  the  rules  of  building,    -       -  33 

Palladio  revived  the  Augustan  style  in  Italy, 45 

Pharos,  the  Tower  of,  described, Note,  31 

Phidias  was  one  of  the  ancient  Masons, 33 

Ptolomeus  Philadelphus  was  General  Master  Mason  in  Egypt,  and  erected 

the  Tower  of  Pharos,  A.M.  3748, 30 

Pyramids  are  a  proof  of  Masonry  in  Egypt, 14 


ANALYTICAL  INDEX.  l09 

Pythagoras  was  the  author  of  the  47th  proposition  of  Euclid's  first  book,  28 

"          account  of, Note,  29 

R. 

Record,  Masonic,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.,  described,       -       -       -  38 

Religious  Orders  borrowed  many  of  their  usages  from  Masonry,        -  47 

S. 
Sampson  never  was  numbered  among  Masons,  because  he  revealed  his 

secrets  to  his  wife, Note,  18 

Saxons,  before  their  conversion  to  Christianity,  were  enemies  of  Masonry,  36 

"        afterwards  erected  Lodges,  and  encouraged  Masonry,       -       -  36 

Scotland,  Masonry  encouraged  in, 43 

"         Grand  Master  and  Grand  Warden  in,  had  a  fixed  salary  from 

the  Crown, •       -  44 

"        regulations  of, -  44 

Seth  was  the  prime  cultivator  of  Astronomy, 12 

"    taught  Geometry  and  Masonry  to  his  offspring,  -       -       -       -  12 

"    family  of,  erected  many  curious  works, 13 

Shem,  posterity  of,  cultivated  the  Masonic  Arts, 16 

Sheriff  or  Mayor  ordered  by  an  old  MS.  to  be  made  Fellow  and 
Sociate  to  the  Master  of  a  Lodge,  in  help  of  him  against 

rebels, -       -  Note,  40 

Shinar,  a  vast  number  of  the  race  of  Noah  employed  in  building  a  city 

and  tower  in  the  vale  of, 13 

Shinar,  workmen  at,  celebrated  for  their  skill  in  Masonry,          -       -  13 

"             "         carried  their  skill  into  distant  parts,    -       -        -       -  13 

Sicily  taught  Geometry  and  Masonry  to  Rome, 32 

Solomon  built  the  Temple  at  Jerusalem, 19 

"        dedicated  or  consecrated  the  Temple,  a.m.  3000  -       -       -  22 
"        was  Grand  Master  of  the  Lodge  at  Jerusalem,        -       -       -  23 
Statuaries  have  always  been  reckoned  good  Masons,  because  they  per- 
form according  to  Geometry  and  the  rules  of  building,     -       -  33 
Stone,  Nicholas,  was  Master  Mason  under  Inigo  Jones,  -       -       -       -  46 

T. 

TabeiTiacle  was  erected  by  Aholiab  and  Bezaleel  under  Moses,  and 

framed  by  Geometry, 17 

Temple  of  Solomon  described, 18 


110  ANALYTICAL   INDEX. 

Temple,  the  Second,  foundations  of,  laid  by  order  of  Cyrus,  a.m.  34G8,  23 

"  "         dedicated  by  Zerubbabel,  A.M.  3489,         -       -  27 

"  "         described, 27 

"         of  Ephesiis  described, Note,  24 

V. 

Vandals  were  enemies  of  Masonry, 35 

Vitruvius  was  the  father  of  all  true  Architects, 32 

W. 

William  the  Conquerob  built  the  Tower  of  London,  -       -       Note,  37 

William  11.  encouraged  Masonry,  and  built  Westminster  Hall,    -       -  38 

William  III.  is  reckoned  a  Freemason, 48 

"  encouraged  Masonry, 48 

"  in  the  reign  of,  the  Augustan  style  was  much  affected,       -  48 

Woikmen  at  the  Temple  described,      ...  ...  19 

Wren,  Sir  Christopher,  was  the  King's  Architect, 49 

Y. 

Yevele,  Henry,  was  the  King's  Freemason,  or  General  Surveyor,  in  the 

reign  of  Edward  IH., 38 

Vork,  General  Assembly  at,  about  a.d.  930, 39 

Z. 

Zerubbabel,  as  General  Master  Mason  of  the  Jews,  dedicated  the 

Second  Temple  with  joy,  a.m.  3489, -  27 


MASONIC    SONGS. 

II. 
INDEX    TO    THE    CONSTITUTIONAL    PART. 

A. 

Age  of  a  candidate  to  be  not  less  than  25,  except  by  dispensation, 

(4  Regulation), 65 

Annual  Communication  of  all  the  city  Lodges  to  be  holden  on  St.  John 

theBaptist'sorSt.  John  the  Evangelist's  day,  (22  Reg.),    -       -    72 
"  "  new  Grand  Master,  Deputy,  and  Wardens,  to  be 

chosen  at  the  (22  Reg.),     ...       -  ...       72 

Appeals  may  be  carried  to  the  Grand  Lodge, 59 

"       to  the  Annual,  from  the  Quarterly  Communication  of  the  Grand 

Lodge, 62 

Atheist,  no  Mason  can  be  one,         ....  ...    56 

B. 

Behavior  in  a  Lodge, 69 

"        after  Lodge,  before  leaving, 60 

"        without  strangers,  but  out  of  Lodge, 61 

"        in  presence  of  strangers  not  Masons, 61 

"        at  home,       ....  61 

"        to  a  strange  Brother,      -       - 61 

Bondmen  cannot  be  admitted  as  Masons, 57 

Brother,  Masons  to  salute  each  other  by  the  title  of,       -       -       -     58, 61 

Brotherly  love  is  to  be  cultivated  as  a  foundation  and  cape-stone,       -  62 

C. 
Candidates,  not  more  than  five  to  be  made  at  one  time  (4  Reg.),  -       -    65 
Candidate,  age  of,  not  to  be  less  than  25  years  (4  Reg.),    -       -       -       65 

"         to  be  unanimously  elected  (6  Reg.), 65 

"         to  clothe  the  Lodge,  and  to  deposit  something  for  charity, 

(7  Reg.), 66 

"         shall  promise  to  submit  to  the  constitutions,  charges,  and 

regulations  (7  Reg.), 66 

Cashier  may  be  appointed  by  a  Lodge  to  take  charge  of  the  charity 

fund  (7  Reg.), 66 


112  ANALYTICAL  INDEX 

Caution  before  strangers  inculcated, 61 

"          "      one's  family,  friends,  and  neighbors,     -        -        -       -  61 
Charity  Fund  to  be  lodged  with  the  Master,  or  Wardeas,  or  Cashier,  if 

there  be  one  (7  Reg.), 66 

'•         to  be  deposited  by  every  new  Brother  at  his  making  (7  Reg.),  66 

"         regulation  for,  in  the  Grand  Lodge  (13  Reg.),       -       -       -  68 

Clandestine  Lodge,  how  to  be  treated  (8  Reg.), 66 

Committee  to  be  appointed  to  examine  all  Brethren  coming  to  the  annual 

feast  (25  Reg.), 73 

Conmiittees,  private,  forbidden  to  be  holden  in  a  Lodge,         -       -       -  69 

Complaints  (nr  charges),  how  to  be  conducted,           ....  60 

Constituting  a  new  Lodge,  manner  of, 78 

D. 

Defect,  physical,  a  disqualification  for  Apprentices,    -       -       -       -       57 

Deputy  Grand  Master  to  be  chosen  by  the  Grand  Master,      -       -       -    58 

"         '•'         "        to  be  appointed  by  the  Grand  Master  at  the  Grand 

Feast  (35  Reg.), 76 

*'         "         "        must  have  been  the  Master  of  a  Lodge,      -       -    58 
"         "         "        may  perfonn  the  duties  of  Grand  Master  in  his 

absence, 58 

"         "         "        being  sick,  the  Grand  Master  may  appoint  a 

Deputy, pro  tempore  (18  Reg.),       -       -       -    71 
"         "         "        cannot  act  as  Master  or  Warden  of  a  Lodge, 

while  in  office  (17  Reg.),        -       -       -       -        70 
"         "          "        cannot  be  discharged  without  the  consent  of  the 

Grand  Lodge  (18  Reg.), 71 

Disorderly  Brother,  how  to  be  dealt  with  (9  Reg.),     -       -       -       -        67 
Dispensations,  cases  in  which  they  may  be  granted  (5,  8,  12,  13 

Reg.), •        -        -  65,  66,  67,  68 

E 

Envy  forbidden, 59 

Excesses  forbidden,       - 60 

Entered  Apprentices  allowed  to  speak  at  the  Annual  Communication  (37 

Reg.)  -       - 77 

"  "         allowed  to  vote  in  making  new  regulations  (39  Reg.),  77 

F. 
Feast  to  be  held  on  St.  John  the  Baptist's  or  St.  John  the  Evangelist's 

day  (22  Reg.), 72 

"    must  be  agreed  upon  three  months  before  (22  Reg.),         -       -       72 


ANALYTICAL    INDEX.  113 

Feast,  if  objected  to  by  the  Grand  Master,  or  a  majority  of  the  Masters, 

it  must  be  dropped  (22  Reg.), 72 

"    how  to  be  managed  (23,  24,  25,  26,  27,  30  Reg.),      -       72,  73,  74,  75 

Fellow,  a  name  by  which  Masons  may  call  each  other,  -       -       -       -  58 
Fellow  Crafts  and  Master  Masons  only,  to  be  made  only  in  Grand  Lodge 

(13  Reg.),    -       - 68 

"           "     permitted  to  speak  at  Annual  Communication  (37  Reg.),  77 

Fidelity  to  the  Lord  (i.  e.,  employer)  inculcated, 59 

Free-bom,  Masons  must  be, 57 

G. 

Grand  Lodge  to  consist  of  Master  and  Wardens  of  all  the  Lodges,  with 

the  Grand  Master,  Deputy,  and  Grand  Wardens  (12  Reg.),    67 
"         "      to  hold  Quarterly  Conamunications  and  an  annual  one 

(12  Reg.), -    67 

"         "      duties  and  functions  of  (13  Reg.),         -       -        -       -       67 
"         "      aU  matters  in,  to  be  determined  by  a  majority  of  votes 

(12  Reg.),       ...       -  ....    67 

"         "      none  but  members  to  be  present  (12  Reg.),  -       -       -       67 

Grand  Master  must  have  been  a  Fellow  Craft, 68 

"  "      other  quaUfications  of, 58 

"       -  "      authority  and  powers  of, 62 

"  "      has  two  votes  (12  Reg.), 67 

"  **      not  to  be  applied  to  on  business  without  the  knowledge  of 

hisDeputy  (16  Reg.), 70 

"  "      has  a  right  to  preside  in  any  Lodge  (1  Reg.),      -       -        64 

"  "      cannot  be  the  Master  or  Warden  of  a  Lodge  during  tie 

time  of  oflBce  (17  Reg.), 70 

"  "      abusing  his  power,  to  be  treated  by  a  new  regulation 

(19  Reg.), 71 

"  **      dying,  or  being  otherwise  rendered  incapable  of  discharg- 

ing his  oflBce,  how  his  place  is  to  be  supplied  (21  Reg.),    71 
"  "      to  be  elected  only  by  the  Master  and  Wardens  of  the 

Lodges  (29  Reg.), 75 

"           "      how  to  be  proclaimed  (32  Reg.),         -       -       -       -        75 
"           "if  not  elected  at  the  Annual  Communication,  or  refuses 
to  serve,  then  the  present  Grand  Master  shall  appoint 
his  successor,  to  be  unanimously  approved  by  the 
Grand  Lodge  (33  Reg.), 75 


114  ANALYTICAL    INDEX. 

Grand  Master  to  act  as  proxy  for  the  Grand  Master  elect,  if  he  be  absent 
at  the  time  of  his  election,  and  to  receive  homage  for  him 

(36  Reg.), 77 

"  "      must  harangue-  the  Brethren  and  ^ve  them  good  advice 

at  the  Annual  Communication  (38  Reg.) ,        -       -       -    77 

H. 
Health  must  be  consulted,  by  not  continuing  together  too  late,  or  too  long 

from  home  after  lodge  hours  are  past, 60 

Heni7  V.,  opinion  concerning  the  act  passed  in  the  reign  of,  -       -    63 

Honor  of  the  Ancient  Brotherhood  to  be  consulted,    -       -       -        -        61 

I. 

HI  language  to  be  avoided  by  the  Craftsmen, 58 

Instructing  the  Master  and  Wardens,  right  of  secured  to  the  Lodge, 

(9  Reg.), 67 

Instruction  to  be  given  to  the  younger  Brethren, 61 

J. 

Journey-work  not  to  be  put  to  task,     ....  -       -       69 

L. 
Laborers  not  to  be  employed  in  the  proper  work  of  Masonry ^        -       -    59 
Language,  unbecoming,  not  to  be  used  in  the  Lodge,  -       -       -       -       58 
Law,  not  to  be  resorted  to,  about  what  concerns  Masonry,  without  an  ab- 
solute necessity,  apparent  to  the  Lodge, 60 

Law  suits  between  Masons  to  be  conducted  without  wrath  and  rancour,    62 
Legal  course,  never  to  be  taken,  unless  the  case  cannot  be  otherwise 

decided, 62 

Libertine,  irreligious,  (i.  e.,  a  freethinker,)  a  Mason  cannot  be  one,       -    56 

Lodge,  definition  of, 57 

"        every  Brother  to  belong  to  one, 57 

"        anciently,  no  Mason  could  be  absent  from  it,  except  from  neces- 
sity, vnthout  severe  censure, 57 

"        qualifications  for  admission  to  (2  Reg.), 65 

"        Rulers  and  Governors  of,  to  be  obeyed  in  their  respective  stations, 

with  humility,  reverence,  love,  and  alacrity,       -       -       -       58 

"        is  either  particular  or  general, 57 

"        by-laws,  roll,  and  minutes  of,  to  be  kept  by  the  Master,  Wardens, 

or  some  Brother  appointed  by  the  Master  (3  Reg.),    -       -        65 
"       members  of,  are  the  best  judges  of  whom  they  shall  admit 

(6  Reg.), 65 

"        Grand.    (See  Grand  Lodge.) 


ANALYTICAL  IXDEX.      "  115 

M. 

Majority  of  votes  to  decide  in  the  Grand  Lodge  (12  Reg.),         -       -  67 

Making  of  more  than  five  new  Brothers  at  one  time  forbidden  (4  Reg.)  65 

Mason,  the  religion  of  one, 56 

Master  of  a  Lodge,  his  rights  and  authority  (2  Reg.),        -       -       -  65 

"                 "        must  have  acted  as  "Warden, 58 

**  "        the  most  expert  of  the  Fellow  Crafts  to  be  chosen 

as  the, 58 

"  "        who  is  the  oldest  Freemason,  to  preside  in  the  Grand 

Lodge ,  in  the  absence  of  higher  officers  (14  Reg.) ,  6  9 
"        Grand.    (See  Gi^and  Master.) 
"        Masons  and  Fellow  Crafts  to  be  made  only  in  the  Grand  Lodge 

(13  Reg.), *      -        -       -  64 

Merit,  the  only  ground  of  preferment  among  Masons,         ■       -       -  57 

Mirth,  innocent,  to  be  enjoyed  after  Lodge,     -        -                -        -        -  60 

Moral  Law,  a  Mason  obliged  by  his  tenure  to  obey  the,      •        -        -  50 

Motions  to  be  received  before  dinner  at  the  annual  feast  (28  Reg.),       -  74 

O. 

Obedience  to  the  Rulers  of  Masonry  inculcated,         -       -       -       -  58 

P. 

Past  Grand  Master,  or  Past  Deputy,  takes  the  place  of  the  Grand 

Master  in  his  absence,  and  that  of  the  Deputy  (14  Reg.),    -        -  69 

"    Master,  the  last,  to  preside  in  the  absence  of  the  Master  (2  Reg.),  65 
Petition  or  notice  to  be  one  month  previous  to  admission  of  a  member 

(5  Reg.), 65 

Politics  not  to  be  brought  into  the  Lodge,        .        -        -        -       -  60 

Porters  to  be  appointed  for  the  annual  feast  (26  Reg.),       -       -       -  74 

Preferment  among  Masons  grounded  on  merit, 57 

Proxy,  Grand  Master  may  be  installed,  and  make  his  nominations  by 

(36  Reg.), 77 

Q. 

(Qualifications  for  admission, 67 

"             physical,  of  candidates, 57 

Quarreling  and  wrangling  forbidden, 60 

Quarrels  alwut  religion  or  politics  forbidden, 60 

Quarterly  Communications  of  the  Grand  Lodge  directed  to  be  holden 

(12  Reg.), 67 


116  ANALYTICAL  INDEX. 

Quarterly  Communications  none  but  members  to  be  present  at  them 

(12  Reg.), 67 

"  "  Master  Masons  and  Fellow  Crafts  to  be  made 

only  there,  except  by  dispensation  (13  Reg.) ,  68 

"  **  differences  that  cannot  be  settled  in  private 

or  by  Lodges,  are  to  be  decided  there 

(13  Reg.), 68 

**  "  appeal  from  the,  to  the  annual  Grand  Lodge 

(13  Reg.), 68 

**  **  Masters  and  Wardens  to  make  their  returns 

there  (13  Reg.), 68 

R. 

Rebels  to  government  not  to  be  countenanced,  but  cannot  be  expelled,  56 

Regulations,  (General,  were  compiled  by  Geo.  Payne,          ■       ■       -  64 

"              "        how  to  be  altered  (39  Reg.),       •       -       -       -  77 

Religion  of  a  Mason,  what  it  ought  to  be, 56 

"       disputes  about,  never  to  be  brought  into  the  Lodge,  -        -        -  60 

Representatives  of  a  Lodge  are  the  Master  and  Wardens  (10  Reg.),  67 

Reverence  to  be  paid  to  the  Master,  Wardens,  and  Fellows,       -       -  60 
Roll  of  members  to  be  kept  by  the  Master,  Wardens,  or  some  other 

Brother  appointed  by  the  Master  (3  Reg.),         -       -       -       -  65 

S. 

Salute.    Brethren  to  salute  one  another  in  a  courteous  manirer,          -  60 

Secretary,  Grand,  provision  for  his  apijointment  (13  Reg.),    -       -       -  68 

"  "      cannot  be  Master  or  Warden  of  a  Lodge  during  his 

time  of  office  (17  Reg.), 70 

Seniority  no  ground  for  preferment  in  Masonry,    -       -       -       -       -  57 
Senior  Warden  presides  in  the  Master's  absence,  if  no  Past  Master  be 

present;  and  if  there  is,  he  must  congregate  the  Lodge  (2  Reg.),  65 

Song,  the  Master's, ....  83 

"      "    Warden's, 93 

"      "    FeUow  Craft's, 98 

"      "    Entered  Apprentice's, 100 

Stewards  for  the  annual  feast  to  be  appointed  (23  Reg.),  -       -       -  72 

Strange  Brethren  to  be  cautiously  examined, 61 

"           "         to  be  respected  and  relieved, 62 

"           "         to  be  employed  or  recommended,       -        -       -        -  62 

Sulyection  to  the  civil  povrers  inculcated,     -       -              -       -       -  56 


ANALYTICAL    INDEX.  117 

T. 

Task  work  not  to  be  put  to  journey,         ....              -       -  59 

Tyler,  Grand,  dii-ected  to  be  appointed  (13  Beg.),      -       •       -       -  68 

"         "       must  be  a  Fellow  Craft  (13  Reg.),           -       -       -       -  68 

"         "       shall  not  be  a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge  (13  Reg.),  68 

Tools  to  be  approved  by  the  Grand  Lodge, 59 

Treasurer,  Grand,  his  appointments  and  powers  (13  Reg.),   -       -       -  59 
"             "       cannot  be  Master  or  Warden  of  a  Lodge  during  the 

time  of  his  office  (17  Reg.),       -       -     '  -       -  70 

U 

Unanimity  in  balloting  for  candidates  required  (6  Reg.)         -       -       -  65 

"                  "        cannot  be  dispensed  with  (6  Reg.)  -       -       -  65 

Uniformity  in  work  to  be  observed  (11  Reg.), 67 

V. 

Visitation  of  the  city  Lodges  by  the  Grand  Master  directed,  (12  Reg.)  67 

Votes,  a  majority  of,  to  decide  all  questions  in  the  Grand  Lodge,  (12  Reg.) ,  67 

"      the  Grand  Master  has  two,  (12  Reg.), 67 

W. 

Wages,  no  more  to  be  given  than  deserved, 69 

"      to  be  received  without  murmuring, 59 

Warden  must  be  a  Fellow  Craft,                            58 

"       to  oversee  the  work  in  the  Master's  absence,         -       -       -  59 
Wardens,  to  be  elected  by  the  Lodge,  if  it  does  not  approve  of  the 

Master's  nomination  (35  Reg.),     -       -                .       .       .        .  7g 

Warden,  Grand,  must  have  been  the  Master  of  a  Lodge,   -       -       -  58 
"           "        cannot  be  a  Master  or  Warden  of  a  Lodge  during  his 

timeof  office  (17  Reg.), 70 

Wardens,  Grand,  who  are  to  act  as  such  in  the  Grand  Lodge  (15  Reg.),  70 
"             "       cannot  be  discharged  by  the  Grand  Master,  without 
the  consent  of  the  majority  of  the  Grand  Lodge 

(18  Reg.), 71 

"            "       are  to  prepare  tickets  for  the  feast  (23  Reg.),         -  72 

"             "       to  be  nominated  by  the  Grand  Master  (35  Reg.),       -  76 
"             "       to  be  elected  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  if  the  Grand 

Master's  nomination  is  not  approved  (35  Reg.),  -  76 


118  ANALYTICAL   INDEX. 

Warrant  to  form  a  new  Lodge,  must  be  obtained  from  the  Grand  Master 

(8  Reg.), 6G 

Withdrawal  of  a  number  of  Brethren  from  a  Lodge,  when  only  to  be 

Ijermitted  (8  Reg.), 66 

Women  not  to  be  admitted  members  of  a  Lodge, 57 

Work  on  working  days  inculcated, 58 

"      to  be  done  reasonably, 58 

"      to  be  honestly  finished, 59 

Worth  and  merit,  the  only  grounds  of  preferment  among  Masons,  -       -  59 


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